Eric V. Smith wrote: >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. > > Eric, You do understand it correctly and I agree with what you are saying. I cannot use your suggestion, however, because the requirement is that at any given time the textual representation of the system is stable, meaning no unresolved dependencies. So, I cannot have an unstable textual representation and wait until actual install time to get things resolved by yum or other tool.
