Re: yum and createrepo questions

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:52 -0500, Joe_Wulf wrote:
> sv,
> 
> Thank you for your comments and quick reply!  :)
> 
> To make sure I've got this right: the '--groupinfo' SHOULD be included for each

--groupfile

> of the 'comps-*.xml' files
> from the distro media, in order for my clients to see it in the BROWSE tab,
> right? 
Well, you can only have a single comps.xml file per repo. You can merge
multiple files and you can have one in each repo - but only on per repo.


>  So, the act of doing
> the 'createrepo' for a directory structure doesn't automatically benefit from the
> information in those
> 'comps-*.xml' files?

Not without --groupfile so createrepo knows to use it.



-sv