Hi Seth, thanks for the quick response. I think I will end up setting up a small yumgroups.xml, like you mentioned. I am not sure that using a custom yum.conf will solve my problem. Basically, I want to force the machine to install everything in the 'group1' repo. To do this, it may need to install packages located in the RedHat Base repo, but if I have both repositories listed in the yum.conf file, then doing a 'yum install \*' would want to install *everything* in both the group repo and the RH repo, correct? I want it to install everything in the group repo, but only the necesary dependencies it needs from the base repo... As far as I can tell, there is no way to do that without setting up the yumgroups.xml file... -Jeff On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:26, seth vidal wrote: > > 2 ways: > > 1. use a cgi for the yum.conf and use yum -c http://mydomain/mycgi > 2. as you said just setup a small yumgroups.xml in the top of the > baseurl path. You don't need the full comps file - just the parts you're > planning on using. ex: > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <!DOCTYPE comps PUBLIC "-//Red Hat, Inc.//DTD Comps info//EN" > "comps.dtd"> > > <comps> > <group> > <id>phy-workstation</id> > <uservisible>true</uservisible> > <name>Physics Workstation</name> > <packagelist> > <packagereq type="mandatory">gdm-linuxduke-theme</packagereq> > <packagereq type="mandatory">memtest86-grub</packagereq> > <packagereq type="mandatory">lyx</packagereq> > <packagereq type="mandatory">grace</packagereq> > </packagelist> > </group> > </comps> > > Then your workstations need only do: > > yum groupupdate "Physics Workstation" > > and any new mandatory or default packagereqs added to that group will be > added onto the system. > > -sv
