On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:29, Webber, R. Marshall wrote: > I have a wrapper around yum because I need to be sure that it always > points to a remote config file that is centrally managed. Recently I've > added the group_install function and tried to pass group names to my > bash script wrapper around yum. This fails because many of the group > names in yumgroups.xml have spaces in them. > > So in short, the question is, why does yum use the <name> field in the > xml file, but anaconda uses <id> field? Wouldn't it be simpler to keep > yum in line with anaconda and the comps.xml use of the <id> field. My > bias is for this because the id field uses single keywords without > spaces. Just quote the strings. yum groupinstall "Some Group Here" "Bar Baz" Anaconda, via kickstart, at least uses the long names too. -sv
