[chef] Re: CHEF-1392: yum groupinstall

["Eric G. Wolfe" < >]

I've tried to use them with Chef, without much luck.  We install a 
baseline of yum groups in the kickstart.  For Chef recipes, I just 
expand the list of group packages into an array, and let Chef loop over 
that.

Eric G. Wolfe
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On 05/15/2011 01:28 AM, Matthew Kent wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Trying to gauge interest in a provider for yum groupinstall, is anyone
> out there actively using groups to install packages?
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch05s15.html
>
> Honestly I've never used them myself but perhaps I'm in the minority.