On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:24, seth vidal wrote: > why would there be a move away from comps? Comps is not a bad system at > all for groups specifications. The metadata for group arrangements > > yum has a comps/yumgroups.xml merge class that takes multiple comps and > attempts to merge them into on set of groups for all your repositories. In my first couple of passes through the -packages.comps stuff I did not see an straight forward way to add new information to the comps data set. Thanks for setting me straight. > > > Is the intent to retain backwards compatablity with cdrom/ftp/http rpm sources > > or will these all become yum repos on different mediums? > > I think the goal should be to work on the new metadata format for > http/ftp rpm sources and cdrom/file sources are easy to deal with > overall. I ask this question as I look at the mind numbing number of commandline options plus the five back ends that up2date has to deal with. If feasible, it would easiest if everything was a yum repo. Then it would be just a matter of pointing your tool at the repo and installing/updating. Thanks Dave Farning