Nils Toedtmann wrote:
Oops, my knowledge about rpm/yum groups is obviosly out of date, sorry. Is there some documentation out there?
(So yum groups are defined in xml files which must be somehow imported to the systems rpmdb ... isn't that a bit inflexible? How can i maintain a groupdefinition ("Application Server") and add that definition to a 3rd-party yum repo?)
you need to RTFM the yum and createrepo pages :)
as an example - use the groups setup in the centos-extras repo on mirror.centos.org/4/