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yum-groups-manager(1) yum-groups-manager(1)
yum-groups-manager - create and edit yum's group metadata
yum-groups-manager [options] [packages]
yum-groups-manager is used to create or edit a group metadata file
for a yum repository. This is often much easier than
writing/editing the XML by hand. The yum-groups-manager can load
an entire file of groups metadata and either create a new group or
edit an existing group and then write all of the groups metadata
back out.
-h, --help
Display a help message, and then quit.
--version
Display a version message, and then quit.
-n, --name
The name to lookup/use for the group. If you specify an
existing group id, then the group with that id will have
it's name changed to this value.
--id The id to lookup/use for the group. If you don't specify an
id, but do specify a name that doesn't refer to an existing
group, then an id for the group is generated based on the
name.
--description
The description to use for the group.
--mandatory
Store the package names specified within the mandatory
section of the specified group, the default is to use the
default section. This overrides the optional argument.
--optional
Store the package names specified within the optional
section of the specified group, the default is to use the
default section. This option is overridden by the mandatory
argument.
--dependencies
Also include the names of the direct dependencies for each
package specified.
--not-user-visible
Make the group not visible in yum grouplist.
--user-visible
Make the group visible in yum grouplist (this is the
default).
--display-order
Change the integer which controls the order groups are
presented in, for example in yum grouplist.
--load Load the groups metadata information from the specified
file, before performing any operations. This option can be
specified multiple times.
--save Save the result to this file, you can specify the name of a
file you are loading from as the data will only be saved
when all the operations have been performed. This option
can also be specified multiple times.
--merge
This is the same as loading and saving a file, however the
"merge" file is loaded before any others and saved last.
--print
Also print the result to stdout, if saving or merging.
--remove
Instead of adding package, remove them. Note that the
packages are removed from all sections (default, mandatory
and optional).
--translated-name
This is another name for the group within the locale given.
The syntax is lang:text. Eg. en:my-group-name-in-english
--translated-description
This is another description for the group within the locale
given. The syntax is lang:text. Eg. en:my-group-
description-in-english.
The following options are meant to be the same as those with the
same name in yum.
-c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
--quiet
--verbose
--enablerepo
--disablerepo
--noplugins
-C, --cache
--tempcache
Create a new group metadata file, with a group called yum
containing all the packages that start with yum:
yum-groups-manager --name YUM --save groups.xml 'yum*'
After the above command, load the groups.xml data, work with the
yum group, make the group not user visible, and remove the yum-
skip-broken and yum-priorities packages from it:
yum-groups-manager -n YUM --merge groups.xml --remove yum-
skip-broken yum-priorities --not-user-visible
After the above commands, add a description and a translated name
to the yum group:
yum-groups-manager -n YUM --merge groups.xml --description
'This is a group with most of the yum packages in it'
--translated-name 'en:yum packages'
yum-groups-manager uses the yum libraries for retrieving
information and packages. If no configuration file is specified,
the default yum configuration will be used.
/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum/repos.d/
yum(8)
yum.conf(5)
http://yum.baseurl.org/
See the Authors file included with this program.
There are a couple of options you can't set, yet. Most notably you cannot put
package names into the conditional section (where they are installed with
groupinstall only if another package is installed).
Other than that, there are no bugs, but should you find any, you should first
consult the FAQ section on http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq and if unsuccessful
in finding a resolution contact the mailing list: yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org.
To file a bug use http://bugzilla.redhat.com for Fedora/RHEL/Centos
related bugs and http://yum.baseurl.org/report for all other bugs.
This page is part of the yum-utils (Yum Package Manager utilities)
project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum⟩. It is not known
how to report bugs for this man page; if you know, please send a
mail to man-pages@man7.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum-utils.git⟩ on
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2020-03-11.) If you discover
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COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
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23 August 2008 yum-groups-manager(1)
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