Re: createrepo/rpm-metadata repository format creator ver 0.3.4

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What about third party repositories creating groups of their own, like
gstreamer-universe, which is currently handled by a meta-package (is
that the right term?) by the gstreamer.org repository. Will the creation
of groups in third party repositories be possible with this new system? 

fre, 23.07.2004 kl. 23.10 skrev Matthias Saou:
> seth vidal wrote :
> 
> > > Quick question about the group file, is this the current comps.xml and
> > > yumgroups.xml file that can be included into the metadata?
> > 
> > right now there is no defined groups format - I've been using
> > comps.xml/yumgroups.xml as the 'standard' but we need a better
> > definition.
> > 
> > groups default to not being there so 'use at your own risk'
> > 
> > I think for purposes of fedora using comps.xml as the defacto standard
> > is a good idea.
> 
> I can't seem to really figure out your answer, so I guess I'll just make
> some testing on the behavior ;-) I've started relying heavily on groups for
> a very simple task : "yum groupinstall Base Core" pulls in all the packages
> added to the base system that are missing after a "yum upgrade" from a
> distribution to another. Think selinux policy files, acl stuff etc. _very_
> convenient, I find.
> 
> Matthias
> 
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