RexOps / RexOps/Rex

Provide yum groupinstall capabilities

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Description

It would be nice to have an option to tell yum to use groupinstall instead of install.

Something like

pkg "development",
  type => "group";

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating the yum package-install handling and the parser for the pkg declaration shown in the issue. Compare the existing install path with the requested type => "group" behavior, then verify that a development group is handled through the yum groupinstall capability.

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Assessment

Tech stack
perl
Domain
devops, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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