On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:38, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > 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... > right and more to the point the yumgroups.xml lets you get certain other advantages. yum groupupdate is a nice way to keep systems current with whatever you want in a particular group. -sv
