[packagekit] Unsupported package groups/filters

Tim Lauridsen tla at rasmil.dk
Sun Sep 9 04:23:52 PDT 2007


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 09/09/2007, Tim Lauridsen <tla at rasmil.dk> wrote:
>   
>> It sound like a good ideas to add something like get_group, to let the
>> backend defind the groups available groups.
>> yum work with categories and groups defined in comps.xml file and there
>> is also groups defined in the RPMs.
>> None of these map well into the .desktop file groups.
>>     
>
> No worries. What are the comps and rpm groups?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Richard.
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Checkout this screenshots to get and idea of that comp group & rpm group
http://timlau.fedorapeople.org/files/pics/

rpm groups are the one written by the packages in the rpm spec file.
 comps groups are groups defined in the repository metadata (comps.xml) 
it is the groups you can select in the Anaconda installer on 
Fedora/RHEL/CentOS.

Tim



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