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
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