yum-get

A tool for obtaining packages as RPM files from Yum repositories, usable from non-Red Hat and even non-Linux systems.

Current features

• List the packages contained in a repository
• Download a package by (name, ver, rel) tuple

Possible future goals

The following are roughly ordered by usefulness/ease of implementation.

• Handle multiple arch values
• Implement rpmvercmp to remove the need to specify ver and rel
• Implement requires/provides logic to download dependencies
• Allow multiple repositories to be used
• Read the standard yum repo file format (/etc/yum.repos.d) to obtain repository URLs
• Verify downloads using:
  • checksums
  • GPG signatures
• Allow searching within the filelists metadata, to locate packages by contained file(s)

Definite non-goals

• Installing packages
• Replacing yum or dnf
• Handling RPM internals not exposed in the yum repo metadata
• Email