creat a group in repo

[seyd-ali]

i have downloaded some rpm packages in below directories:

/home/ali/yum/Design-Suite
/home/ali/yum/Electronic-Lab
/home/ali/yum/Engineering-and-Scientific
/home/ali/yum/Hardware-Support
/home/ali/yum/Sound-and-Video

now,i nedd to create a repo,adding them in a same directory such:

/home/ali/yum/myrepo

and using

creatrepo

but i need to see the packages in groups that i have downloaded them in the their own directoy -after creating repo-,like:
Sound-and-Video
Hardware-Support
Design-Suite
Electronic-Lab
and etc
how can i add and introduce this groups and their packages to "creatrepo"?

[AndrewSerk]

Hello seyd-ali,

The group info is in the comps.xml file. What I have done in the past (may not be the best way) is edit that xml file by hand and run createrepo -g comps.xml after editting the xml file.

More info in this link: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...e/ch08s03.html

Hope this helps,

EDIT: I use xmllint to check my edits in the comps.xml

[seyd-ali]

hello
rpm packages should be in which directory?
the comps.xml output file goes where?

[AndrewSerk]

Hello,
You want the rpms and comps.xml in the same folder.
If you read the link I provided in my above post you will find the answers to your questions there.

[seyd-ali]

Originally Posted by AndrewSerk

Hello,
You want the rpms and comps.xml in the same folder.
If you read the link I provided in my above post you will find the answers to your questions there.

i did it exactly!!1
but the packagelist is empty!!!

[root@ali-laptop ~]# yum-groups-manager -n "Base" --id=base  --save=comps.xml Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, local, presto, refresh-packagekit,
              : yum-fast-downloader
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: fedora.idrepo.or.id
 * rpmfusion-free: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * updates: mirrors.ispros.com.bd

[root@ali-laptop ~]# cat comps.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE comps PUBLIC "-//Red Hat, Inc.//DTD Comps info//EN" "comps.dtd">
<comps>
        
  <group>
   <id>base</id>
   <default>false</default>
   <uservisible>true</uservisible>
   <display_order>1024</display_order>
   <name>Base</name>
   <description></description>
    <packagelist>
    </packagelist>
  </group>
</comps>

and even in below commands i did not get the desired result!!

[root@ali-laptop ~]# cd /home/ali/yum/Base/
[root@ali-laptop Base]# yum-groups-manager -n "Base" --id=base  --save=comps.xml
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, local, presto, refresh-packagekit,
              : yum-fast-downloader
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: fedora.idrepo.or.id
 * rpmfusion-free: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * updates: mirrors.ispros.com.bd
         
[root@ali-laptop Base]# cat comps.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE comps PUBLIC "-//Red Hat, Inc.//DTD Comps info//EN" "comps.dtd">
<comps>
        
  <group>
   <id>base</id>
   <default>false</default>
   <uservisible>true</uservisible>
   <display_order>1024</display_order>
   <name>Base</name>
   <description></description>
    <packagelist>
    </packagelist>
  </group>
</comps>

my question is:
how the yum-groups-manager command can help me to make the rpm files in -only-in the " /home/ali/yum/Base/" directory as a "Base" group?

also i used a command such:

[root@ali-laptop Base]# ls -al ./
total 6708
drwxrwxr-x.  2 ali ali    4096 May 11 03:41 .
drwxrwxr-x. 16 ali ali    4096 May 10 08:33 ..
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  75053 May  7 06:25 apmd-3.2.2-14.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  43092 May  7 06:25 authd-1.4.3-31.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 629909 May  7 06:27 busybox-1.18.2-5.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  29336 May  7 06:25 fbset-2.1-30.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 329977 May  7 06:25 gnupg2-smime-2.0.18-2.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  43560 May  7 06:26 gpart-0.1h-14.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 177297 May  7 06:26 gpm-1.20.6-21.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  12457 May  7 06:25 hardlink-1.0-12.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 105440 May  7 06:25 hfsutils-3.2.6-19.fc12.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 208812 May  7 06:26 jfsutils-1.1.13-8.fc12.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 238253 May  7 06:26 kexec-tools-2.0.2-29.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 765781 May  7 06:26 ksh-20110630-7.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 111040 May  7 06:25 libksba-1.0.8-3.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 299009 May  7 06:26 logwatch-7.4.0-6.20110328svn50.fc16.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 446301 May  7 06:26 mgetty-1.1.36-12.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  12768 May  7 06:25 mkbootdisk-1.5.5-2.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 231757 May  7 06:26 nscd-2.14.90-24.fc16.6.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 129548 May  7 06:25 nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.13-7.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  20860 May  7 06:26 pam_ccreds-10-3.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  89404 May  7 06:25 pam_ldap-185-10.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  70900 May  7 06:26 pax-3.4-12.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root   8445 May  7 06:26 perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1006.fc16.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 315529 May  7 06:26 perl-Locale-Codes-3.21-1.fc16.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  26037 May  7 06:26 redhat-lsb-4.0-7.1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 246204 May  7 06:26 reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-4.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 114152 May  7 06:26 squashfs-tools-4.2-1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 327752 May  7 06:26 star-1.5.1-7.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 807589 May  7 06:26 syslinux-4.02-5.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 403045 May  7 06:27 tboot-1.7.0-1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 285572 May  7 06:26 trousers-0.3.6-1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  57152 May  7 06:25 x86info-1.29-1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 125369 May  7 06:25 xinetd-2.3.14-46.fc16.i686.rpm
[root@ali-laptop Base]# yum-groups-manager -n "Base" --id=base  --save=comps.xml '*'
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, local, presto, refresh-packagekit,
              : yum-fast-downloader
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: fedora.idrepo.or.id
 * rpmfusion-free: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * updates: mirrors.ispros.com.bd

but it maked all rpm packages that were installed on my computer,a group!!!!
i need only make the

[root@ali-laptop Base]# ls -al ./
total 6708
drwxrwxr-x.  2 ali ali    4096 May 11 03:41 .
drwxrwxr-x. 16 ali ali    4096 May 10 08:33 ..
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  75053 May  7 06:25 apmd-3.2.2-14.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  43092 May  7 06:25 authd-1.4.3-31.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 629909 May  7 06:27 busybox-1.18.2-5.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  29336 May  7 06:25 fbset-2.1-30.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 329977 May  7 06:25 gnupg2-smime-2.0.18-2.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  43560 May  7 06:26 gpart-0.1h-14.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 177297 May  7 06:26 gpm-1.20.6-21.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  12457 May  7 06:25 hardlink-1.0-12.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 105440 May  7 06:25 hfsutils-3.2.6-19.fc12.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 208812 May  7 06:26 jfsutils-1.1.13-8.fc12.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 238253 May  7 06:26 kexec-tools-2.0.2-29.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 765781 May  7 06:26 ksh-20110630-7.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 111040 May  7 06:25 libksba-1.0.8-3.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 299009 May  7 06:26 logwatch-7.4.0-6.20110328svn50.fc16.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 446301 May  7 06:26 mgetty-1.1.36-12.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  12768 May  7 06:25 mkbootdisk-1.5.5-2.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 231757 May  7 06:26 nscd-2.14.90-24.fc16.6.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 129548 May  7 06:25 nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.13-7.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  20860 May  7 06:26 pam_ccreds-10-3.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  89404 May  7 06:25 pam_ldap-185-10.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  70900 May  7 06:26 pax-3.4-12.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root   8445 May  7 06:26 perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1006.fc16.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 315529 May  7 06:26 perl-Locale-Codes-3.21-1.fc16.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  26037 May  7 06:26 redhat-lsb-4.0-7.1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 246204 May  7 06:26 reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-4.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 114152 May  7 06:26 squashfs-tools-4.2-1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 327752 May  7 06:26 star-1.5.1-7.fc15.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 807589 May  7 06:26 syslinux-4.02-5.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 403045 May  7 06:27 tboot-1.7.0-1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 285572 May  7 06:26 trousers-0.3.6-1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root  57152 May  7 06:25 x86info-1.29-1.fc16.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r--.  1 ali root 125369 May  7 06:25 xinetd-2.3.14-46.fc16.i686.rpm

packages in a same group!!!

[seyd-ali]

but you see the result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE comps PUBLIC "-//Red Hat, Inc.//DTD Comps info//EN" "comps.dtd">
<comps>
        
  <group>
   <id>base</id>
   <default>false</default>
   <uservisible>true</uservisible>
   <display_order>1024</display_order>
   <name>Base</name>
   <description></description>
    <packagelist>
      <packagereq type="default">0xFFFF</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-admin</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-admin-console</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-admin-console-doc</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-adminutil</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-adminutil-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-console</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-ds</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-ds-base</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-ds-base-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-ds-base-libs</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-ds-console</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-ds-console-doc</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">389-dsgw</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">3Depict</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">3proxy</packagereq>
     packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Io-language-mysql</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Io-language-postgresql</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">JSCookMenu</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Judy</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Judy-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">KoboDeluxe</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">L-function</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">L-function-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot-doc</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot-doc-br</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot-doc-de</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot-doc-fr</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot-doc-it</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot-doc-nl</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot-doc-pl</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LabPlot-doc-sv</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LibRaw-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LinLog</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LogService</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LogService-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LuxRender</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LuxRender-blender</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LuxRender-core</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LuxRender-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">LuxRender-lib</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MAKEDEV</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Macaulay2</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Maelstrom</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MagicPoint</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Mars</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Mayavi</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MegaMek</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MiniCopier</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MiniCopier-javadoc</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MochiKit</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">ModemManager</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Mosaic</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MyPasswordSafe</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MySQL-python</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">MySQL-zrm</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NaturalDocs</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NearTree</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NearTree-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">Nestopia</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetPIPE</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-glib</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-glib-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-gnome</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-gtk</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-gtk-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-openconnect</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-openswan</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-openvpn</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-pptp</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-vpnc</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OCE-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OCE-draw</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OCE-foundation</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OCE-modeling</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OCE-ocaf</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OCE-visualization</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">ORBit</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">ORBit-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">ORBit2</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">ORBit2-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OSGi-bundle-ant-task</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OmegaT</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenColorIO</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenColorIO-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenColorIO-doc</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR-libs</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR_CTL</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR_CTL-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR_CTL-libs</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR_Viewers</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR_Viewers-docs</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenEXR_Viewers-nonfree</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenGTL</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenGTL-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenGTL-libs</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenIPMI</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenIPMI-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenIPMI-libs</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenIPMI-perl</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenIPMI-python</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenImageIO</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenImageIO-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenLP</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenNL</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenNL-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-examples</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-examples-SDL</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-examples-fltk</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-examples-gtk</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-examples-qt</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-libs</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-qt</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">OpenSceneGraph-qt-devel</packagereq>
   
.........
      <packagereq type="default">zynaddsubfx-dssi</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">zynjacku</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">zyx-liveinstaller</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">zziplib</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">zziplib-devel</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">zziplib-utils</packagereq>
      <packagereq type="default">zzuf</packagereq>
    </packagelist>
  </group>
</comps>

IT WAS INCLUDED MORE THAN 445000 PACKAGES IN A SAME GROUP!!!!!!!!!!