[Arm-dev] Request for the Xfce desktop

Wed Aug 1 20:15:47 UTC 2018
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


On 08/01/2018 10:44 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 01/08/18 16:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Stephen,
>>
>> thank you for clarifying this.
>>
>> meanwhile...
>>
>> I have enabled the epel repo, and there is no "Xfce Desktop" group. I do
>> see xfce4 rpms now, but what do I do to install the Xfce desktop?
>>
>> thanks
> There is no "Xfce Desktop" group, as it's unknown in the metadata.
> EPEL (official one) has a comps.xml that defines such groups and so
> which packages are mandatory/optional for a group ID.
>
> As on our side, we just rebuild through build queues the EPEL src.rpm
> pkgs, and that after each successful build there is only a createrepo
> task that is ran, we don't point to a comps.xml that can be used for that.
>
> We can probably "hack" the .py scripts from plague on our side for that,
> just for epel rebuilds, but maybe not worth doing . .so you can probably
> inspect the epel comps.xml, and see which pkgs have to be installed ?

 From the Centos list I was pointed to:


http://pastebin.centos.org/1251906/raw/

If you cannot find anything better/more for me, this would be a starting 
point.

thanks for all help.