On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Christopher Allen Wing wrote: > We then dynamically generate a yum.conf file which points to various yum > repositories (depending upon the configuration of the particular machine), > and we create a yumgroups.xml file from the flat text file list of RPMs. > Then we run 'yum groupinstall' to do the work. > > All of our yum repositories are on file servers, so we don't want yum to > bother copying the RPMs locally before installing. Currently we have a > gross hack where we make a fake cache directory which just has symlinks > back to the real yum repositories on the file server. We run yum -C so it > doesn't try to download anything but instead just follows the symlinks. > (Sorry, I was too lazy to fix yum to not attempt to actually download for > file:// URLs) BTW: yum-2.1 doesn't copy files for file:// url. And it appears to use comps.xml directly for group operations. So you might want to take a look at it. Satish
