Sergei Mikhailov said: > Thanks Seth. I need this functionality fairly soon, so I would like to > ask for your opinions on the following questions. While I am waiting for > yum v3, what can be done in the meantime. 1) What do you think of > parsing yum's output as a temporary alternative? 2) Are there other > tools that may do that? 3) What is the timeline for this feature to > become available? and 4) Since I seems to be the only one that needs it > right now, what can I do to make this happen faster? > If I understand it correctly, you have a list of packages that are installed on a box. You want to take this list and install all of these packages on another box. You want the user to be able to edit the list and add packages, and have yum or some other tool automatically add the dependencies that the user-added packages have when the packages are installed on the new box. Given that, why not just take the editted list of packages and use yum to install it on the new box? Then the user can add a single package and the dependencies are automatically added during the install. The list will be incomplete once the user edits it, but it's still usable to accomplish the goal of installing all of the right packages. Eric.
