Figuring package class

[Ryan C. Spaulding]

As a side note if you have subversion installed it requires apr  
(other then httpd).


On May 30, 2006, at May 30, 2006 [1:39 PM], Philip Prindeville wrote:

> Ok, and where does hdlist live?
>
> I was trying to figure out, for instance, why "apr" gets installed...
> but can't find any chaining or dependencies.  And it's not named
> explictly in comps.xml or any of the other xml.gz files.
>
> -Philip
>
>
> Neerad Niksun wrote:
>> comps.xml helps you create your own group.
>> RHEL 4.0 has lots of rpms not present in comps.xml and yet those get
>> installed.
>>
>> This is simply done through hdlist. If a package is listed in  
>> hdlist (and
>> not there in any section of comps.xml) it gets installed.
>>
>> Neerad
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Philip Prindeville" <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com>
>> To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 10:35 AM
>> Subject: Figuring package class
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I was trying to come up with a ks.cfg that excluded certain
>>> packages but included others that weren't there by default
>>> in the package class...  for instance, sendmail-cf and - 
>>> wpa_supplicant,
>>> but I can't tell which class they go into (@base-x???).
>>>
>>> How do you tell?  All of this information must be in the .xml.gz
>>> files in repodata/ directory...  But I can't figure out how to
>>> interpret it.
>>>
>>> Someone care to set me straight?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Philip
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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