On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:52:08AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:51:52PM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > When someone goes to install the group: 'yum groupinstall > > mygroup-of-fun' or 'yum install @mygroup-of-fun' then yum will grab the > > comps/groups file from each repo, look if the group you're requesting is > > there. If so it will create a metapkg rpm (a package containing only > > requirements) on the packages that exist in the repositories that are > > listed in that group. Then it will depsolve and install that pkg. The > > package name will be @mygroup-of-fun. The package version will be a hash > > of the contents of the package along with a timestamp. It needs to be > > timestamp-based so the version is increasing so we can 'update' these > > pkgs. > > Will the installer install @groups or packages? What if a user > installs a @group either with anaconda or yum groupinstall, and they > later decide they don't want one of the packages in that group? How > do they remove just one package member? What is the behavior of "yum > remove" on a @group? Sorry, I missed the 2nd half of this thread where my question above is answered: yum remove @group won't remove any real packages or group members, just the metapackage. You'll also lose the ability to track this @group when new group-members appear in the repo(s). yum remove group-member will remove that group-member and the @group's metapackage, leaving all the other group-members there. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
