any "recursive" option for yum groupinfo command?

[Robinson Tiemuqinke]

Hi,

 Thanks for your reply.

 Do you know where can I find document|format of the
yum group definition file? If there are any examples
that I can refer to?

 Thanks.


--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   Here is a newbie question: 
> > 
> >   I could not find any "recursive" options for yum
> > groupinfo command. I mean if a group contains
> other
> > groups, then a 'yum groupinfo <group>' will show
> only
> > the packages directly defined in it, not any
> packages
> > defined in enclosed groups.
> > 
> >  Although 'yum groupinstall <group>' will install
> > packages in enclosed groups.
> > 
> >  Any one can tell this newbie a way to list all
> > packages, directly defined or enclosed in
> subgroups,
> > in one run?
> 
> The "group" information comes from a "comps" file in
> the repository. The 
> format of this file has changed in FC5 and
> "groupreq"s are no longer 
> supported. So yum will only see package dependencies
> when you do a 
> groupinstall, rather than full group dependencies.
> 
> "yum grouplist" should still show you all the groups
> though.
> 
> Paul.
> 
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