seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 12:57, nathan r. hruby wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>So in attempting to make yum groupinstall (and friends) work I >>discovered that the each repo must have a yumgroups.xml file in order >>for the group commands to work (else one ends up with an urlgrab.error >>and a 'no such group exists' error). >> >>Is this designed this way or a bug? If so, can I just touch an empty >>yumgroups.xml file in my updates directories, or does it need to be a >>valid xml file that describes nothing? >> >>Currently just copying the same yumgroups.xml into everything makes it >>work, but I get a lot of 'Duplicate dependancies" warnings.. >> > > > What version of yum? yum 1.98 didn't like it if the repos didn't have a > yumgroups.xml 2.0 should throw a warning but happily continue. I tested > that a lot. And the warning should be error level 2 only, I think. > Ok.. I have confirmed that 2.0 does throw a warning about not being able to get a yumgroups.xml file in the updates repo but finds it in the base repo and happily shows me a nice list of groups, which I belive is as it should. This is after a "yum clean all" and manually removing all of the yumgroups.xml files from /var/yum/cache/* So, it appears, that this is fixed in 2.0 and I must have just gotten confused this morning.. Hey, it's Monday :) Thanks! -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
