Comments on: Creating a yum repository (repo) and Creating a yum group to install + kickstart

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:29:06 +0000

Thanks for this and the previous rpm/gpg-related post. You saved me the agony of looking through man pages all morning ;-)

By: Andreas Roussos

Andreas Roussos — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:46:29 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply! As for the argument to a `yum groupinstall’ (or any group* sub-command for that matter), that can actually be the name or the id of a defined package group. At least that is the case with YUM 3.2.8 on Fedora 8. It’s quite possible though that the YUM version / distro combination you used when writing your article did indeed suffer from that limitation.
Regards,
Andreas

By: uphill

uphill — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:52:50 +0000

Yes, you are right, Thanks! I’ll fix it now…as for the capitalization, it would be mygroup instead of MyGroup, mygroup is the id of the group and MyGroup is the name of the group. You use the id when issuing a groupinstall.
Cheers,
T.

By: Andreas Roussos

Andreas Roussos — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:17:00 +0000

In your comps.xml file you define a custom group called `MyGroup’. Given that, shouldn’t the command to install the RPMs in that group be `yum groupinstall MyGroup’ instead of `yum groupinstall myrepo’ (`myrepo’ being the repository name)?