Bug 71585 - [RFE] Create `group' packages to assist installing large components (X, KDE, Gnome, etc)
Summary: [RFE] Create `group' packages to assist installing large components (X, KDE, ...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: up2date
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adrian Likins
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-15 13:17 UTC by Mike MacCana
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-04-05 20:58:58 UTC
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Description Mike MacCana 2002-08-15 13:17:50 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux)

Description of problem:
Its possible to create RPM files which don't contain any files, just dependencies on other packages. This can be used to create `group' packages whose dependencies describe some piece of functionality provided by a number of packages - for example, a `kde' package could depend on kdebase, kdelibs, kdeadmin, etc.

When used in conjunction with up2date, users could then run an `up2date kde' to install all of KDE, instead of reinstalling the OS (what Red Hat's documentation currently recommends users do) or trawling through the comps file from the CD.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install a system without kde
2.Attempt to install all of KDE easily

	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2004-04-05 20:58:58 UTC 
Current up2date (fedora) supports using "comps" and globs

aka "up2date kde*"

or `up2date "@KDE Workstation"
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