On Saturday 20 September 2008 01:36:25 pm Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Hi all!
I recently created comps.xml files for RPM Fusion. During that a few
things around comps.xml got discussed on the RPM Fusion lists(¹).
That and a recent change (²) to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CompsXml
made me wonder:
How important is comps.xml to us these days?
(Note that I mean Fedora and RPM Fusion with "us" here, as RPM Fusion
for things like this just follows the Fedora guidelines)
Comps.xml is afaics mainly used in anaconda (and thus indirectly in
tools like pungi that rely on anaconda) and yum (if you know what to do)
these days; PackageKit afaics doesn't use it much (or does it use
comps.xml at all? Will that change?); it just lists everything it finds
afaics (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not using PackageKit much and just
use yum directly).
comps.xml is used by yum when doing group functions also so
"yum
groupinstall xfce-desktop" gets that group info from the comps file. its
still pretty vital. and to get the highest visability to your package you
should be entering it.
Dennis