Valid Group names

Stephen J. Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu May 5 22:38:34 UTC 2005


On 5/5/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:06:44PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > > > I think I am missing the obvious, but is there a page in the Wiki with
> > > > the valid Group names that can be used when creating packages?
> > > /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/GROUPS
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RPMGroups
> >
> > It's kind of a weird list -- anything remotely related to math or science
> > ends up getting lumpted into "Applications/Engineering".
> >
> > Personally, I think the list should be reduced to:
> >
> >  Core
> >  Extras
> >
> > .
> >
> > For various reasons, it's been found to be more useful to keep the updated
> > version of this metainformation externally -- in comps.xml and the (same
> > format) yum groupfiles. Given that that's the case, having this
> > slightly-askew list of round-peg-square-hole categories in the RPM itself
> > ought to go.
> 
> <nod>
> 
> or better yet 86 the group list.
> 

Well that is above my 'paygrade' to decide. I was just trying to
figure out what I should do currently. I can not use the field if that
is what Extras prefers.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator




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