On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Miller mattdm@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'.