mock buildroot definitions

[Warren Togami]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:51 -0500, Mike McLean wrote:
>> I would like to have the original behavior available via configuration. 
>> Surely yum will continue to have a groupinstall command.
>>
> 
> groupinstall will still exist, but how the groups are resolved may
> change.  Today it's a comps file, which is a bit of a mess to maintain.
> In the future there may be a much better way of defining groups.  Since
> this is something of a moving target, I like the idea of a package
> itself providing the start of the build root, less moving, and easier to
> hand out so that people can duplicate our build root exactly.
> 

Is the concern about yum groupinstall that it is now "conditional" 
depending on other things that are installed, thus it is not guaranteed 
what is actually in the buildroot.  For this reason it is safer to 
explicitly list it somewhere?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com