> 1) If yum finds the yumgroups.xml file in one repository, does it really > need to look for it in the rest of the repositories? When yum finds a > repository without the yumgroups.xml file it complains: > retrygrab() failed for: > ftp://foobar.cs.ucsb.edu/updates-9/yumgroups.xml > Executing failover method > > So, why not stop looking for the file if it's already seen it in another > repository? Which leads me to the next question: each repository can have it's own, independent yumgroups.xml They'll merge together groups of the same name/id or, alternatively, overwrite based on a setting in yum.conf so that is why it looks through all repositories but doesn't exit if it doesn't find one in all of them. > 2) Theoretically, what happens if two yumgroups.xml files are found and > they define the same group with different packages? Or if a group is > defined in one and not in the other? read above. Welcome, enjoy. -sv
