OK, well I made a perl script to do this. It works great so far in my tests, but let me know if you have any problems with it. You can find it here: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~sheltren/download.php?id=7 Try: ./yumgroups.pl --help for usage information. You can use it to search through directories for RPMs to add to a group, and/or specify packages on the command line for it to include. Ex: ./yumgroups.pl -g somegroup -i someid -d /ftp/repo1 -d /ftp/repo2 foo bar will output the XML for group 'somegroup' including all RPMs in /ftp/repo1 and /ftp/repo2 (as well as their sub-directories. It will also include the packages 'foo' and 'bar' in the group. By default it will just print out the group information, but there are flags to print out the header, the footer, or the full XML (header, group info, footer). Hopefully people will find this useful :) -Jeff On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 12:08, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 12:01, seth vidal wrote: > > 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. > > > Exactly, that would work nicely. > > > sounds like a great idea. Let me know when you have a version done. :) > > Sure, but I'm warning you, it's not going to be in python ;) > > -Jeff
