Re: a couple questions about yum and groups

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On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Seth Vidal wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >  # yum groupinfo Virtualization
> >
> > i get a short list of packages categorized as "Mandatory", "Default"
> > and "Optional".  i'm guessing that the first means absolutely
> > required, the second means default selected but de-selectable, and the
> > third, well, not selected but selectable.  the questions:
> >
> >  1) what are the options i used to configure what packages i want?
>
>
> man yum.conf look for group_package_types:
>        group_package_types
>        List  of  the following: optional, default, mandatory. Tells yum
>        which  type  of  packages  in  groups  will  be  installed  when
>       ʼgroupinstallʼ is called.  Default is: default, mandatory

  so:

  * can that config setting be applied in individual repo files in
    /etc/yum.repos.d/ to override the global setting in yum.conf?

  * i guess there's no command-line options to override those settings
    on a per-command basis?

rday
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