yum-utils
June 4, 2005
So we made the first release of yum-utils today. It’s 0.2 and it’s available in yum’s download dir. It’s got a great set of tools in it and I think those people who have ever complained to me about some crack^Wadvanced feature yum needed that I balked at will find these extremely handy. From the readme:
– Introduction –
Yum-utils is a collection of utilities, plugins and examples related to the yum package manager.
If you encounter any problems using these utilities feel free to send an e-mail to the yum mailing list:
https://lists.linux.duke.edu/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:
https://lists.linux.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
– Description of the utilities –
package-cleanup:
Check for unneeded packages and dependency problems in the system. (also cleans up old kernels)
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
So I’m clearly kinda happy about this and I hope yum-utils will show up in fedora extras real soon now.
