====== bash script to rip/download rpms from a repo ====== there are many ways hwo to clone a rpm repo. most notably, one can use ''reposync'' which does exactly that, or if the repository is available via rsync, ''rsync --list-only'' could be used to find the right directory to download via rsync. another option is using wget for http repos which show a directory listing. my script here is another (quick and dirty) method with only a few dependencies, ment to work also on linux systems that don't have yum utilities and it is able to download repos from http even without a directory listing, by parsing the repodata necessary to get the list of files. as a little addition, my script downloads the rpms by parallelizing 10 wget threads using xargs, which can significantly speed up the download process. **CAUTION** this is a quick and dirty scirpt, i'm not doing much as far as input checking goes, so make sure you enter the right parameters! use this at your own risk.


#!/bin/bash 
set -e
targetDir=$1
url=$2
if [ -z "$targetDir" -o -z "$url" ]; then
    echo 
    echo "repofetch.sh downloads all rpm's from a rpm repostiroy and creates a local repo out of it"
    echo 
    echo "  usage: repofetch.sh  " 
    echo
    echo "  : target directory on local filesystem where the rpms should go (repodata will be one directory higher)"
    echo "  : url of the repo including the path to the directory where the repodata directory is located"
    echo 
    exit 1
fi
echo "creating target directory $targetDir"
mkdir -p $targetDir
cd $targetDir

echo "fetch repomd.xml"
wget -nd $url/repodata/repomd.xml

echo "fetch primary.xml"
primaryxml=$(grep -A 20 '' repomd.xml | grep "