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Not being on rhel 3/4 that much these days, I don't get the pleasure of dealing with up2date on a daily basis anymore. At first, when Redhat introduced Yum in el5 I thought, "what was wrong with up2date???". Now, looking back on how limited up2date is... I retract my initial statement.

That said, every now and again I come across the following issue:

# up2date --show-groups

This does nothing on our standard kicks, and every time I forget what is needed to resolve it. So here I am, writing a mini-blog (still hate that word) so that the next time I forget I know where to look for the answer.

The package that provides the up2date group functionality is 'comps' which provides the "file and header lists for the Red Hat Linux distribution".

So you just have to install comps:

# up2date -u comps

Now, working with groups is possible:

# up2date --show-groups
 
# up2date -u @Editors
 
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