Build system ideas/requirements

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:37 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> skvidal at phy.duke.edu (seth vidal) writes:
> 
> >> >
> >> > comps.xml isn't new technology. All the support is there.
> >> 
> >> mach2 has already support for specifying the location of the comps.xml
> >> file? And the comps.xml files for the buildroots exist already?
> >
> > yep, in yum.
> >
> > it just has to use groupinstall :)
> 
> Where can the location of the comps.xml files be specified? E.g. so that
> builds for FC3 use comps-A.xml while builds for devel use comps-B.xml?
> This works really out-of-the-box without adding code to mach2?
> 

in the repository metadata.

you can even have a repository that has ONLY comps information.

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