On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 08:17 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 5/11/05, shrek-m@xxxxxx <shrek-m@xxxxxx> wrote: > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/3.92/ppc/os/Fedora/RPMS/eruby-1.0.5-5.ppc.rpm > > | grep Group > > Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: > > eruby-1.0.5-5.src.rpm > > The group tag in the rpm header is not equilvalent to the comps.xml > file groupings that anaconda and yum use. You can't rely on the > header Group tag to match the groupings in comps.xml at all. To know > which comps groups a package is in, you pretty much have to grep > through the comps.xml file by hand. > > Atleast until someone clever and with some time to kill starts working > with the upstream yum-devel list to implement a groupmember function > equivalent. Or if not acceptable as a contributed patch to of yum, > then certaintly as a stand-alone cache delving utility like these: > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/misc/ Might as well go to repoquery I guess... which I should work on some more one of these days :-/ Digging out that information isn't exactly hard :) [pmatilai@weasel repoquery]$ ./groupmember.py gcc telnet initscripts telnet: base initscripts: core gcc: development-tools - Panu - --- #!/usr/bin/python import yum import sys class yumQuiet(yum.YumBase): def log(self, value, msg): pass def main(args): my = yumQuiet() my.doConfigSetup() my.conf.setConfigOption('cache', 1) my.doRepoSetup() my.doTsSetup() my.doGroupSetup() for id in my.groupInfo.grouplist: for name in args: if name in my.groupInfo.allPkgs(id): print "%s: %s" % (name, id) if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:])