Yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that make yum easier and more powerful to use. The commands provided are:

* repo-graph: output a full package dependency graph in dot format
* repo-rss: generate an RSS feed from one or more yum repositories
* repoclosure: display a list of unresolved dependencies for a yum repository
* repodiff: list differences between two or more yum repositories
* repomanage: list the newest or oldest packages in a yum repository
* repoquery: query information from yum repositories
* reposync: synchronize yum repositories to a local directory
* repotrack: track a package and its dependencies and download them
* yum-builddep: install missing dependencies for building an RPM package
* yum-complete-transaction: attempt to complete failed or aborted yum
transactions
* yum-config-manager: manage yum configuration options and yum repositories
* yum-groups-manager: create and edit group metadata for a yum repository
* yumdb: query and alter the yum database
* yumdownloader: download RPM packages from yum repositories
On Debian and derived systems, this package can be useful for installing and managing chroots or lxc containers of yum-based distributions. The utilities for querying and managing yum repositories may also be useful for maintaining repositories of RPM packages on a Debian host.