Re: New yum module: grouppackagetypes

Robin Bowes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

Hrm, sorry about that.

I had a move around and am doing some re-directs.

Try this:

http://projects.robinbowes.com/trac/yum-grouppackagetypes

R.
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