On Saturday 20 September 2008 01:36:25 pm Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Hi all! > > I recently created comps.xml files for RPM Fusion. During that a few > things around comps.xml got discussed on the RPM Fusion lists(¹). > > That and a recent change (²) to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CompsXml > made me wonder: > > > How important is comps.xml to us these days? > > > (Note that I mean Fedora and RPM Fusion with "us" here, as RPM Fusion > for things like this just follows the Fedora guidelines) > > Comps.xml is afaics mainly used in anaconda (and thus indirectly in > tools like pungi that rely on anaconda) and yum (if you know what to do) > these days; PackageKit afaics doesn't use it much (or does it use > comps.xml at all? Will that change?); it just lists everything it finds > afaics (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not using PackageKit much and just > use yum directly). comps.xml is used by yum when doing group functions also so "yum groupinstall xfce-desktop" gets that group info from the comps file. its still pretty vital. and to get the highest visability to your package you should be entering it. Dennis -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
