please provide a way to download repo metadata

[TomasTomecek]

I just wanted to try depchase, finally. I ran the command and realized, I should download repo metadata. Can we get a tool/script to download it for me? Or, would it be possible to utilize /var/cache/dnf?

[sgallagher]

Have a look at https://github.com/sgallagher/baseruntime-package-lists/blob/master/download_repo.sh

[TomasTomecek]

wow, that's pretty complex

[sgallagher]

That's meant to pull down the repos for all architectures and handle regenerating SRPMs that have different BuildRequires on different architectures. You can clone that repo and just do

./download_repo.sh --release 26 --arch x86_64

for the simple case.
(Optionally with --updates to include the fedora-updates repo as well).

[sgallagher]

I forgot to mention, that will pull down all the appropriate metadata and generate a config file for depchase for you, so you should be able to just move ahead after that.

@ignatenkobrain We should probably link to this script in the README.md for depchase, since it's becoming critical.

[ignatenkobrain]

@sgallagher mind sending PR to fix link? ;)