Hi, A year ago, I learned that Group tag is obsolete [1] I remember ask the reason and is something about comps.xml that I don't remember neither find on google , but for projects that still use repoview, Group tag is needed. So the questions are, have we any replacement for repoview ? or another way to show one repo content ? and why the Group tag is obsolete ? can someone remind me why. And how we now the group of one package ? .
Thanks.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239067#c1
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Sérgio Basto sergio@serjux.com wrote:
Hi, A year ago, I learned that Group tag is obsolete [1] I remember ask the reason and is something about comps.xml that I don't remember neither find on google , but for projects that still use repoview, Group tag is needed. So the questions are, have we any replacement for repoview ? or another way to show one repo content ? and why the Group tag is obsolete ? can someone remind me why. And how we now the group of one package ? .
Thanks.
Here's the FPC ticket about it: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/199
On Seg, 2016-08-01 at 09:17 -0600, Dave Johansen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Sérgio Basto sergio@serjux.com wrote:
Hi, A year ago, I learned that Group tag is obsolete [1] I remember ask the reason and is something about comps.xml that I don't remember neither find on google , but for projects that still use repoview, Group tag is needed. So the questions are, have we any replacement for repoview ? or another way to show one repo content ? and why the Group tag is obsolete ? can someone remind me why. And how we now the group of one package ? .
Thanks.
Here's the FPC ticket about it: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/199
Thanks I was able to find the reason:
RPM in Fedora 18 does not require the presence of the Group tag in the spec file. If the tag is defined, it will be ignored. The package groups of the yum application are used on a Fedora 18 system as the relevant source of information on which group is the package a part of.
I remembered in one thread of devel mailing list on create hawaii group and bingo found the link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_packag e_groups
So now, how I know the group of the package (via yum or dnf) ? seems to me many packages will not have group ... and 3rd-part software ?
Also /usr/bin/gnome-software how find the group of the package ?
Well this is not a very important matter , but I'd like try organize packages in groups , via repoview.
Thanks.
On 08/28/2016 09:24 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
On Seg, 2016-08-01 at 09:17 -0600, Dave Johansen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Sérgio Basto sergio@serjux.com wrote:
Hi, A year ago, I learned that Group tag is obsolete [1] I remember ask the reason and is something about comps.xml that I don't remember neither find on google , but for projects that still use repoview, Group tag is needed. So the questions are, have we any replacement for repoview ? or another way to show one repo content ? and why the Group tag is obsolete ? can someone remind me why. And how we now the group of one package ? .
Thanks.
Here's the FPC ticket about it: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/199
Thanks I was able to find the reason:
RPM in Fedora 18 does not require the presence of the Group tag in the spec file. If the tag is defined, it will be ignored.
Not ignored, it just became optional in rpm 4.6.0 in 2009. So its somewhat old news. The group tag being obsolete (in that practically nothing uses it for anything) is actually even older thing.
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On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 07:24 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
So now, how I know the group of the package (via yum or dnf) ? seems to me many packages will not have group ... and 3rd-part software ?
There are APIs for this in yum/dnf, but form the command line:
repoquery --groupmember httpd
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