On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:07 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > The thing I've always wanted is: > > Duplicate the installed packages on this other, existing machine > with options as to whether you want the same package versions or the > currnt versions. > > And done in a way where the existing machine publishes it's list so the > person installing just picks the example instead of wading through the > thousands of packages every time. yum-debug-dump (and the currently unfinished yum-debug-restore) is our attempt at this, having that output group information al. la. yum-groups-manager shouldn't be hard. But this isn't really the same thing as groups, IMO. > Bonus points for installing from the same repositories as the original > packages... We need rpm to support storing that data first. > This could replace the concept of 'spins' with a minimal install and a > command that says 'make it like that one' that someone with some > expertise has configured for a similar purpose. And, yeh, those kinds of tools for check-update/update/etc. are something I'm interested in (see myum-list-updates for a very prototype example solution). But again, I think that's a very different problem than what groups are for atm. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
