Guide to comps.xml and friends

[Brian Long]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:47, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 18:38 -0700, dan wrote:
> > However, I was wondering if anyone has found, or has in their posession, 
> > a comprehensive guide to comps.xml, detailing which packages have which 
> > dependencies, which groups are inherited, which groups are required, the 
> > true definition of each directive (<packagereq 
> > type="[default][mandatory][optional]>, for instance)... stuff like that. 
> 
> The format is defined at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps.html
> 
> Jeremy

Jeremy, this page was never updated for RHEL 3 where you removed the
<package> sections since Anaconda auto-computes dependencies.

Also, the whole section on getfullcomps.py doesn't apply to supported
releases.

/Brian/

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