Comps/groups/tags-concepts [Was: FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-10-29]
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 18:05:56 UTC 2008
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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