Re: Adding Software Development packages to a box.

On 1 Oct 2002, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:35, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > 
> > Or you can use redhat-config-packages, it holds the same information as 
> > the installer about the package groups.
> > 
> 
> Without X this is pretty much impossible... Hopefully RH will bring text
> based tools into the distribution at some point
> 
> I'll probably end up guessing which packages to install, or run the
> install through on the laptop to see which packages are in that
> category..... 

No need to guess really, just look at the comps.xml file in RedHat/base 
directory (actually you might even have it installed: 
/usr/share/comps/i386/comps.xml) That's what both anaconda & 
redhat-config-packages uses for the classification. It's even easy to 
parse if you know python (there's a readymade module for parsing it called
rhpl.comps) 

...but of course that alone won't get you much closer to getting the
packages installed on your box. up2date does work without X and can 
resolve dependencies but then it doesn't know about the stuff in 
comps.xml... :(

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	- Panu -