kickstart vs. yum

[Bryan Smith]

An explanation of the four (4) different levels for packages is here, along with most of the other information, guidelines and standards for comps.xml:  
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_groups

As Jason pointed out, "yum groupinfo" is a nice, easy, client-based interface into the comps.xml for any group, its packages and the levels for packages.

And like "yum grouplist -v", one can use "yum groupinfo -v" as well.  The latter will give you the Anaconda installation or YUM repo an installed packaged has come from, or the YUM repo it is available from.

-- Bryan

P.S.  As always, one can script the output from YUM to one's taste or fetch the comps.xml directly and work on it with their preferred XML method(s).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Boxman" <jasonb at edseek.com>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:54:41 PM

yum groupinfo [name of group]

Keep in mind the packages listed may themselves pull down dependencies.


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