Package Management

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:40:29PM -0000, Ben Davis wrote:
> In pre RH6.2 days there was (AFAIR) a short html doc on the RH docs CD 
> containing a list of all packages installed for a particular 'module' of 
> the install (ie 'X Window System', 'Gnome Desktop' 'Sound & Video') etc. 
> Since I had trouble doing a full install of FC1 (way back in 2003 ;-0 ) I 
> elected to do a rather barebones install, and simply add the bits I needed 
> as and when; I already have a couple of RH7.2 boxen running nicely, and 
> have done this in the past -- the beauty of RPM based distros.
> 
> Since I'm no fan of redhat-config-packages, and I prefer to do stuff with 
> rpm from the commandline anyways, I've found a roundabout way of using 
> config-packages to give me a list of 'to-install' packages, and then 
> cut-n-paste into a script... rh-config-packages sorts out the 
> dependencies, but I have other scripts that will do this... all I really 
> want to have is the packages list of old. I installed the KDE 'bits' my 
> way, now I need development packages on the system, and this will require 
> a lot of time, just to get the list of pkgs installed under 'Development 
> Tools' 'X Software Devel' etc.

The information is in
yarrow-i386-disc1.iso/Fedora/base/comps.xml. Unfortunately, it is not
the easiest thing in the world to read.

Also, it has some unnecessary dependencies. For example to install the
office group in order to get xpdf, you also get two of the three
OpenOffice.org RPMs, at 30 MB each.

It may be simpler to set up a local yum repository and let yum handle
dependencies for you. http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html.

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