On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:06 PM, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:20 -0400, Jeff Sheltren wrote: >> On Apr 10, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: >>> >>> Group dependencies are no longer supported in FC-5 comps/ >>> yumgroups.xml >>> format. I miss them too... but the groupreq got sacrificed for >>> the GUI >>> gods, expressing the group dependencies in GUI tools doesn't really >>> work. >>> >>> - Panu - >> >> So, I've been curious - is there a new "more better" way to do this >> in yum 2.6? I get the impression that the comps format (ie. >> yumgroups.xml) is going the way of the dodo bird. Seth has brought >> up alternatives for how mock should handle this, but I'm unaware of >> how "groups" are/will be handled in yum 2.6+. Is this still under >> development? Is it an underground movement to do away with the >> segregation of packages? :) If it has already been decided, is there >> a place I can read about groups support in current versions of yum? >> > > in order to make the gui work we had to minimize some of the crazy > recursive possibilities of groups and pull out some other difficult > concepts. I'm not adverse to putting some of the things back in > but I'd > want to make sure it's done in conjunction with things that anaconda > needs to make sure we don't break the installer for fedora. :) > > What functionality is it that you need from the groups and let's > see if > there is a happy medium in here somewhere? > > Thanks, > > -sv I'm actually pretty happy with the current (yum 2.6) setup. Specifically, I want to have a text file where I can list groups and their packages. yumgroups.xml minus the groupreq stuff works fine for me. If you plan on keeping the current state of yumgroups.xml, I would be happy with that - though I don't speak for everyone, of course. I figured that since you have already changed some of the groups code, you probably had something in mind as far as a new way to handle groups, but since I haven't found anything on the devel list, I thought I'd ask. -Jeff
