Re: New yum module: grouppackagetypes

seth vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <1210262466.28648.27.camel@cutter>
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:43 +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was trying to find out how I could install just the mandatory packages 
> from a package group when using "yum groupinstall ...". I found that I 
> could add a line to /etc/yum.conf:
> 
> group_package_types=mandatory
> 
> But I'd like to be able to do it from the command line, i.e. without 
> editing any files, then having to edit them back. So, I asked on the 
> #yum IRC channel and it was suggested that I could do this with a yum 
> plugin.
> 
> So, not letting the small matter that I don't really know any python get 
> in the way, I came up with this:
> 
>      http://robinbowes.com/projects/yum-grouppackagetypes
> 
> Hope someone else finds it useful.
> 

Robin,
 I think this idea is good. Glad you didn't find the plugin interface
difficult to use.

However, i can't seem to get to the actual plugin, at all. Trac is
giving me an error at the url above.

thanks,
-sv
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