http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jul 13 18:10:15 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:04 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 7/13/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > I need to add a 'pull comps.xml from cvs' to the extras-push script so
> > it gets updated with any regularity.
> 
> Would there be a need for branch specific comps.xml files since
> fc3,fc4 and devel have different package collections available in
> extras?

i think different ones per release makes sense.


>  Or is it fine to have one comps.xml file that includes
> references to packages that aren't in a tree? 

you can but it looks sloppy

> Would a missing
> mandatory group member screw up groupinstall commands?

it won't. missing group members are not fatal errors for yum.

> Also would it make since for there to be an equivalent to the tag and
> build request action packages have for the comps.xml, so that your
> scripted pull gets only a version tagged for consumption instead of
> some interim version thats being worked on?

I don't see any reason why we would apply different rules to the
comps.xml file than to the packages themselves.

-sv





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