I'm working on zypp supprt for supermin, a helper for libguestfs which creates an appliance based on a list of package names. My current approach is to download all packages from the repo and pass the filename of downloaded rpm packages to the tool for further processing. It does something like this, which downloads over 100 packages in my local 11.4 installation: zypper --verbose --verbose --verbose \ --root $PWD/tmp/root \ --reposd-dir $PWD/zypp/repos.d \ --cache-dir tmp//cache-dir \ --pkg-cache-dir tmp/pkg_cache_dir \ --gpg-auto-import-keys \ --non-interactive \ install \ --auto-agree-with-licenses \ --download-only \ \ bash kernel-default mkinitrd The next step would be to make use of already installed packages. What I would like to have is something like this: $new_tool --names bash kernel-default mkinitrd And the output would the name of rpm packages required for the named packages, like the following would produce: find tmp/pkg_cache_dir -name "*.rpm" | xargs rpm -qp --qf '%{NAME}\n' If $new_tool would be able to just download missing dependencies of uninstalled packages and list all the remaining installaed packages, that would be even better. How can I achieve this? Is there already example code which can be reused? Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: zypp-devel+owner@opensuse.org