Is there an 'after the fact' way to find what yum groups are
installed, including ones that were added with 'yum groupinstall'
instead of the initial anaconda install?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:58:08AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:> Is there an 'after the fact' way to find what yum groups are > installed, including ones that were added with 'yum groupinstall' > instead of the initial anaconda install?Yes. "yum grouplist" will tell you the groups that are currently in the installed state. Worth reading the manpage to see exactly what yum thinks that "installed" means: Groups are marked as "installed" if all mandatory packages are installed, or if a group doesn?t have any mandatory packages then it is installed if any of the optional or default package are installed. [...] -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader
On 04/27/2015 01:47 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:58:08AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Is there an 'after the fact' way to find what yum groups are >> installed, including ones that were added with 'yum groupinstall' >> instead of the initial anaconda install? > > Yes. "yum grouplist" will tell you the groups that are currently in the > installed state. Worth reading the manpage to see exactly what yum > thinks that "installed" means: > > Groups are marked as "installed" if all mandatory packages are > installed, or if a group doesn?t have any mandatory packages then > it is installed if any of the optional or default package are > installed. [...] >But, I think that is a YUM database and not based on the RPM database, so it is possible that you can have all the RPMs for a group installed and not actually have it listed as installed. At least I sometimes find myself in that position. But I also wipe out /var/cache/yum/ sometimes. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20150427/4a0d4c19/attachment-0001.sig>
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:58:08AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Is there an 'after the fact' way to find what yum groups are >> installed, including ones that were added with 'yum groupinstall' >> instead of the initial anaconda install? > > Yes. "yum grouplist" will tell you the groups that are currently in the > installed state. Worth reading the manpage to see exactly what yum > thinks that "installed" means: > > Groups are marked as "installed" if all mandatory packages are > installed, or if a group doesn?t have any mandatory packages then > it is installed if any of the optional or default package are > installed. [...]Interesting, but it seems to _only_ show groups that weren't included in the anaconda install. For example where the saved anaconda-ks-cfg shows @gnome-desktop and @development, 'yum grouplist' only shows 'MATE Desktop' which was installed later. What I am looking for is a succinct way to duplicate the full installed package list that exists on an organically-developed developed system (that is, where people added things until it all worked), so equivalent systems can be created by a minimal install followed by a scripted yum install 'big list of stuff'. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com