Hi list,
Trying to gauge interest in a provider for yum groupinstall, is anyone
out there actively using groups to install packages?
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch05s15.html
Honestly I’ve never used them myself but perhaps I’m in the minority.
Hello,
On 15 May 2011 06:28, Matthew Kent mkent+chef-users@magoazul.com wrote:
Hi list,
Trying to gauge interest in a provider for yum groupinstall, is anyone
out there actively using groups to install packages?
Have used quite a bit. Don't tend to these days. But did find it
handy when I did.
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I've tried to use them with Chef, without much luck. We install a
baseline of yum groups in the kickstart. For Chef recipes, I just
expand the list of group packages into an array, and let Chef loop over
that.
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On 05/15/2011 01:28 AM, Matthew Kent wrote:
Hi list,
Trying to gauge interest in a provider for yum groupinstall, is anyone
out there actively using groups to install packages?http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch05s15.html
Honestly I've never used them myself but perhaps I'm in the minority.
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Eric G. Wolfe eric.wolfe@marshall.edu wrote:
I've tried to use them with Chef, without much luck. We install a baseline
of yum groups in the kickstart. For Chef recipes, I just expand the list of
group packages into an array, and let Chef loop over that.
Sounds like it could be useful for a few of us then. I'll update the ticket.
Thanks guys!
Yes please!
I often use them, especially "Development Tools" and "Development
Libraries" (the version of debian's build-essential metapackage).
The only thing that sucks is I don't see an easy way to query yum to
see if a group is installed, without doing a groupinfo and checking
the results against rpmdb individually.
-s
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Matthew Kent
mkent+chef-users@magoazul.com wrote:
Hi list,
Trying to gauge interest in a provider for yum groupinstall, is anyone
out there actively using groups to install packages?http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch05s15.html
Honestly I've never used them myself but perhaps I'm in the minority.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Sean OMeara someara@gmail.com wrote:
Yes please!
I often use them, especially "Development Tools" and "Development
Libraries" (the version of debian's build-essential metapackage).The only thing that sucks is I don't see an easy way to query yum to
see if a group is installed, without doing a groupinfo and checking
the results against rpmdb individually.
I think the output of yum grouplist would work - from CentOS 5.6:
unless I'm missing something.
Look like that should work. Slipped my mind.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Matthew Kent
mkent+chef-users@magoazul.com wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Sean OMeara someara@gmail.com wrote:
Yes please!
I often use them, especially "Development Tools" and "Development
Libraries" (the version of debian's build-essential metapackage).The only thing that sucks is I don't see an easy way to query yum to
see if a group is installed, without doing a groupinfo and checking
the results against rpmdb individually.I think the output of yum grouplist would work - from CentOS 5.6:
unless I'm missing something.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Matthew Kent <mkent+chef-users@magoazul.com
wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Eric G. Wolfe eric.wolfe@marshall.edu
wrote:I've tried to use them with Chef, without much luck. We install a
baseline
of yum groups in the kickstart. For Chef recipes, I just expand the list
of
group packages into an array, and let Chef loop over that.Sounds like it could be useful for a few of us then. I'll update the
ticket.
Absolutely.
We really appreciate your stuff.
Thanks guys!
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