coms.xml as currently in livna breaks yum groupinstall

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Sat Nov 24 13:20:38 CET 2007



On 24.11.2007 13:06, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> As I said, I don't want to do that:
> I understand, but I just wanted to verify it /would/ work, not to 
> discuss implementing it. [...]

I know it works, and just rechecked on F7, where the groups from the
livna repo has the same name and id like the ones from Fedora.

>>>> I doubt filling a bug against yum will help. Fedora likely will tell us
>>>> to use the same group-id then Fedora. I'd like to avoid that, as it will
>>>> be harder for people to find RPM Fusions packages. And there are
>>>> problems in anaconda as well, as you will get packages marked as
>>>> "<packagereq type="default">" only if you unselected and reselect a group.
> How about a separate category for RPM Fusion packages? You would need to 
> try to not use the same group.name, and not the same group.groupid. 
> Sounds reasonable and doable, don't you think?
> 
> Again, just an idea / my $0.02

Sorry, but again we are going in circles (some typos fixed):

>>> As you can see, I gave a RPM Fusion specific ID (and group; see at the
>>> bottom of the page), but used the same <name> as in Fedora, which IMHO
>>> should be a valid thing to do, but is the reason for the problem.
>>> 
>>> We could work around the problem by adding " (from RPM Fusion)" to the
>>> "<name>Games and Entertainment</name>" line. Then yum would work, but
>>> that would look ugly and redundant in pirut. Does anyone have a better
>>> idea how to solve the issue?

CU
knurd


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