Hey Everyone, I'm pleased to be able to announce the availability of yum-utils. This is a set of scripts that are useful to people working with yum as a repo provider or a end user. -- 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. -- Authors -- Various people have made a contribution to this collection: - Gijs Hollestelle Maintainer of yum-utils, 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 You can find a srpm and tarball here: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/yum-utils/ We're just getting started on these tools so you may encounter a few bugs but I think they look really great so far. Thanks to everyone who wrote these tools and make them quite wonderful. for the most part you'll need yum 2.2.1 or yum 2.3.2 or higher to use them. -sv
