On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:36 -0500, Michel Salim wrote: > 2007/2/14, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:12 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Michel Salim wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way to tell yum to install a group including all optional > > > > packages? Or is this considered something that a frontend to yum > > > > should do: grab the group info and then provide the optional package > > > > list to the user. > > > > > > Yum doesn't have a way to specicy group package "policy" but you can > > > accomplish that by using repoquery as a helper: > > > > > > yum install `repoquery -g -l --grouppkgs=all <group1> [<group2>...]` > > in 3.0.3 you should be able to specify: > > > > group_package_types = mandatory default optional > > > > in your yum.conf and it will install all of those types. > > > Would the first solution involves more overhead (hitting the yum > repositories twice)? For the second, I guess if I do this often enough > I could use a custom yum.conf. There's no directive for yum.conf to > source the content of another file, is there? (So to be safe I'd > probably use a script to copy the current yum.conf, add the > group_package_types, use and discard) yes. include=/path/to/file include=http://path/to/url they work just fine from any yum configuration or .repo file. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
