Re: Re: CentOS5 virtual machine image

Am Sonntag, den 28.01.2007, 18:42 +0000 schrieb Karanbir
Singh:
> Nils Toedtmann wrote:
> >>> Sure (i hope i know what you mean with
"role"). Could be done by empty
> >>> meta-packages like ubuntu's
"{,k,x}ubuntu-desktop".
> >> I like the approach that is taken with FC6
live CD's, they use some
> >> meta packages that pull in all dependencies
for a "role".
> > 
> > Me too, it's the same approach as ubuntu's. It's
more appropriate than
> > the "groupinstall" method.
> 
> why is it more appropriate ? it sounds more of a kludge
to achieve 
> something with a package manager unable to support
groups directly. 
> Since yum can, we should use groupinstall and group/*
to manage such stuff.

Oops, my knowledge about rpm/yum groups is obviosly out of
date, sorry.
Is there some documentation out there? 

(So yum groups are defined in xml files which must be
somehow imported
to the systems rpmdb ... isn't that a bit inflexible? How
can i maintain
a groupdefinition ("Application Server") and add
that definition to a
3rd-party yum repo?)

/nils.

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Nils Toedtmann wrote:
> Oops, my knowledge about rpm/yum groups is obviosly out
of date, sorry.
> Is there some documentation out there? 
> 
> (So yum groups are defined in xml files which must be
somehow imported
> to the systems rpmdb ... isn't that a bit inflexible?
How can i maintain
> a groupdefinition ("Application Server") and
add that definition to a
> 3rd-party yum repo?)
> 

you need to RTFM the yum and createrepo pages 

as an example - use the groups setup in the centos-extras
repo on 
mirror.centos.org/4/

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