[CentOS] Back to Xfce

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/06/2018 11:51 AM, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:33 AM Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08/06/2018 11:11 AM, Tony Schreiner wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:55 AM Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nicolas,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!  But I am Dyslexic and very mono-linguistic; at least I could
>>>> read the actual commands, if not all the wonderful comments...
>>>>
>>>> On 08/06/2018 10:26 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>>>>> Le 06/08/2018 à 16:05, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
>>>>>> But notes that this installs Gnome (which I don't want) and that
>>>> instead to
>>>>>> yum groupinstall “X Window System”
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But has concerns if this installs all needed followed up with
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yum groupinstall "Xfce"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thing is on armhfp, I do not have “X Window System” or "Xfce"
>>>>> I can partially answer your question, since I'm running Xfce both on my
>>>>> workstation and my laptop.
>>>> I switched to Xfce with Fedora 20 and have put up with Gnome on my
>>>> Centos systems so far.
>>>>
>>>>> Here's my custom script that installs a full-blow bells-and-whistles
>>>>> Xfce desktop from a minimal CentOS installation, without any
>> unnecessary
>>>>> packages.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> https://github.com/kikinovak/centos-7-desktop-xfce/blob/master/postinstall.sh
>>>>> Once you've installed the "X Window System" group and you invoke "yum
>>>>> groupinstall Xfce", the group consists of not much more than a dozen
>>>>> explicit core packages (Thunar, xfdesktop, xfce4-panel, etc.) and then
>> -
>>>>> of course - all the dependencies are installed. Give this a spin on an
>>>>> x86_64 machine and then write down this relatively short list.
>>>> I don't have an x86_64 machine with Centos on it.  I would have to play
>>>> with Qemu VM for centos on this Fedora 28 notebook.  All my servers
>>>> (other than the ClearOS one) are ARM.
>>>>
>>>> The armhfp repos (including epel) do not have either the "X Windows
>>>> System" or "Xfce" (and any sub-groups that calls).  So I am asking for
>>>> the content of those groups.  Hopefully the source scripts so I can
>>>> modify them (as needed) for armhfp.
>>>>
>>>> It would seem that there is a source file somewhere in the source tree
>>>> with the script(s) contents.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>> In the file
>>>
>> 5307666922f0cd10058b04791f3f596cfcaab48df6fdd6cf847f349bd455e0bd-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml
>>> from the repodata in the Epel 7 repository there is the following for the
>>> Xfce group, is this helpful to you?
>> Yes!  I can pull out the rpm list and build a file to feed into yum.
>>
>> Can you point out the URL for all the groups?  I am also going to need
>> the "X Windows System" group, I believe (and should compare it to the
>> Server GUI group).
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
> The comps file i searched was (for example)
>
> http://fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net/7/x86_64/repodata/5307666922f0cd10058b04791f3f596cfcaab48df6fdd6cf847f349bd455e0bd-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml
>
> you can choose any Fedora/Epel mirror
>
> But the "X Window System" group is in CentOS base, look for one of those
> mirrors (for example)
> http://mirror.atlanticmetro.net/centos/7.5.1804/os/x86_64/repodata/d87379a47bc2060f833000b9cef7f9670195fe197271d37fce5791e669265e8b-c7-x86_64-comps.xml
>
> do
> grep "<name>"  your-comps.xml-fil
> to see all the names
> then page it and search for "X Window System" in your case

Big help here.  With this and http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumGroups

I should be able to create my own repo with the groups I need, then hand 
it off to the armhfp maintainers.