> If I were to create a script to do this, I'd probably just make the > group name be a command line argument. > > Something like: > create-yum-groups <groupname> <directory> > > Would go in <directory> get a list of all RPMs in that directory, and > then create the xml file setting the groupname to whatever was supplied > on the command line, and filling in the packagereq tags with all the > RPMs that it found in that directory... Does that make sense? > > Of course it wouldn't be too difficult to do by hand for small > repositories, but it would be nice to have a script do it, so that when > a package is added or removed from the repository, you don't have to > manually modify the xml file each time. > sounds great - one step further: create-yum-groups <groupname> <groupid> <list-of-rpms> create-yum-groups groupfoo foo bar baz quux do re mi fa so la ti do to do the same thing - then it wouldn't be group based. and ideally - instead of generating a whole xml file just create the <group> section so you could paste them together. sounds like a great idea. Let me know when you have a version done. :) -sv
