Comps/groups/tags-concepts [Was: FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-10-29]

[Les Mikesell]

Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
>> Make it so everyone else can say:
>> yum -y install "seth's server packages"
>> and everyone else can have equal success.
>>
>> And it will work for desktops too, given a few experts that publish 
>> their lists of packages for for given purposes and preferences.
>>
> 
> look at yum-groups-manager
> 
> you can easily make a local, custom comps.xml right now with a list of 
> groups.
> 
> then you can do:
> 
> createrepo -g that_comps.xml somedir
> 
> and you have a repository that ONLY has comps.xml in it that is then 
> instantly usable by any site which can get to the baseurl where it lives.
> 
> neat, huh?

That might work locally, but I don't see it happening for arbitrary 
sharing between people who have installed a system suitable for some 
purpose and those who would like to duplicate it where they have no 
other relationship.

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   Les Mikesell
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