Guide to comps.xml and friends

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:14 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> 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.

I'll take patches :-)

Actually, I should move the document over to the wiki[1] so that people
can live edit it.  todo++

Jeremy

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda  Although I'm planning to do
some reorganization shortly.