[chef] Re: Re: CHEF-1392: yum groupinstall

[Matthew Kent < >]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Sean OMeara 
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 wrote:
> Yes please!
>
> I often use them, especially "Development Tools" and "Development
> Libraries" (the version of debian's build-essential metapackage).
>
> The only thing that sucks is I don't see an easy way to query yum to
> see if a group is installed, without doing a groupinfo and checking
> the results against rpmdb individually.
>

I think the output of yum grouplist would work - from CentOS 5.6:

https://gist.github.com/974742

unless I'm missing something.