Bug 788560

Summary: RFE: Support for package group categories in TDL
Product: [Retired] CloudForms Cloud Engine Reporter: Lukas Zapletal <lzap>
Component: imagefactoryAssignee: jrd <jrd>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Martin Kočí <mkoci>
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Priority: low    
Version: 1.0.0CC: akarol, brad, dajohnso, deltacloud-maint, dgao, ssachdev, whayutin
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Description Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-08 13:36:25 UTC
For Katello we would need to support package group categories in the TDL. Possible implementation would be with double at characters:

  <packages>
    <package name="walrus"/>
    <package name="@mammal"/>
    <package name="@@desktop"/>
  </packages>

This is not needed for the 1.0.0 release, but we would like to have it in next releases.

Although it is possible to get a list of groups within a category from Pulp, it would be cleaner to have the support in IF. If this is not possible for technical reasons, please close the bug and we will implement that in Katello.

Related BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788165

Comment 1 Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-08 13:41:47 UTC
Setting low prio, I am not sure if group categories are supported by yum.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_groups

Comment 2 Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-08 13:51:21 UTC
Those categories cannot be used in kickstarts.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_3._Package_Selection

I doubt if they are any useful. Will probably close this bug. Sorry about that.

Comment 3 Lukas Zapletal 2012-02-09 13:30:50 UTC
Ok we will remove this from Katello.