> Are you denying there is alchemy involved in python-rpm? If not alchemy > there certainly seems to be a good deal of secrecy. > > I am having a hard time finding much info on it. The best sources of > information seem to be the code for up2date, anaconda and yum combined > with the c APIs. > > It will likely make a lot more sense when I look over yum.comps > tomorrow. huh? yumcomps and the nevral stuff don't have to clash: comps == representation of groups with a list of packages in them nevral == representation of the packages metadata. They don't HAVE to have anything to do w/one another. they just can. -sv