[BBLISA] Linux kickstart packages

[Mark Lamourine]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 13:29 -0400, Adam Moskowitz wrote:
> In a typical lunix ks.cfg file in the %packages" section there are
> individual package names as well as package "bundles," in the form
> "@bundle".
> 
> Can someone please tell me where or how I find out what packages are
> included in each of these bundles?
> 
> I know this information has to be out there somewhere but I'm not
> finding it. Maybe my google-fu is weak today?

The hands-dirty method is to look at the comps.xml file.  This is the
software package database.  I seem to remember that there were also
published modules to view and manipulate the comps.xml, but I don't
remember them offhand. 

Ohh..  A python library rhpl.comps

http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/comps.html

Hrrm.  Redhat's moved rhpl.comps to yum.comps.  And updated it.

Try this:
-------------------------------

#!/usr/bin/python

import yum.comps
import sys

comps = yum.comps.Comps()
comps.add(sys.argv[1])

for group in comps.get_groups():
    pkgs = []
    print group
    for package in group.packages:
        print "   ", package

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The python docs are available by

  $ pydoc yum.comps

Sorting and filtering by manditory etc are left to the reader...

- Mark

> Thanks,
> AdamM
> 
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