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-- 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.
-- 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.