yum-utils

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NOTE: This project is deprecated. Please use DNF, the successor of YUM: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf

-- Introduction --

Yum-utils is a collection of utilities, plugins and examples related to the yum package manager. See http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumUtils for more details.

If you encounter any problems using these utilities feel free to send an e-mail to the yum mailing list: http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum

If you have created an utility related to yum and you'd like to look into getting it included into this set please e-mail the yum-devel mailing list: http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel

-- Description of the utilities --

package-cleanup: Check for unneeded packages and dependency problems in the system.

repoclosure: Check for dependency problems in repositories.

repomanage: Look up oldest or newest packages in a directory. Can be used for cleaning up repositories for example.

repoquery: Query packages and groups in repositories similarly to rpmquery.

repo-rss: Generate RSS feed from repositories.

yum-builddep: Install build dependencies of source RPMS.

yumdownloader: Download packages (and optionally their dependencies) to arbitrary directories without installing them.

reposync: poor-man's rsync for yum repositories. Uses the yum download mechanisms to synchronize a remote repository to a local directory

repotrack: allows you to track only certain packages and their dependencies from a remote repository. Useful if you only want a few things out of another repository.

pkgtorrent: allows you to offload work on your local yum mirror by synthesizing BitTorrent swarms transparently.

-- Authors --

Various people have made a contribution to this collection:

• Gijs Hollestelle Author of yumdownloader and package-cleanup

• Seth Vidal Maintainer of yum, author of repoclosure, repomanage and repo-rss

• Panu Matilainen Author of repoquery, yum-builddep

• Sean Dilda Author of the update on boot init scripts

• Tim Lauridsen Maintainer of yum-utils - fixer of a lot of misc utils.

• Valentina Mukhamedzhanova Maintainer of yum-utils.

• Matthew Almond Author of pkgtorrent