Python command line tool to clone repositories in RPM-MD format with optionally selecting needed architectures. Tested on OpenSUSE-Leap repositories.
Inspired by rrclone Perl tool.
Use
$ ./rpm-repo-clone.py --arch x86_64 --arch noarch http://source/repo/ path/to/destination/folder/
to clone repo from the Web keeping only 'x86_64' & 'noarch' package architectures.
Or to copy repo files from a local directory (e.g. on usb-stick) use
$ ./rpm-repo-clone.py local/path/to/source/repo/ path/to/dest/folder/
- Python 3.6+
Requestspython module
You need a correct path to RPM-MD repository. For example, take it from a .repo-file (located in '/etc/yum.repos.d' (RedHat) or '/etc/zypp/repos.d' (SUSE) dirs) as a string after "baseurl=". To check that URL is correct you can try to download repository xml metadata. Put your string into browser address bar and append "/repodata/repomd.xml" (no quotes) and if you see xml text then the URL is correct.
By default, the rpm-repo-clone downloads packages for all architectures available. If only several are required (e.g. 'x86_64' and 'noarch'), provide one or many --arch <name> options in the command line.
This deletes files not listed in the repository metadata. It can help to clean-up a local repository storage created by direct packages downloading from the Web (e.g. by mirroring repo site contents via wget).
Note, rpm-repo-clean cleans only subdirectories, any top level objects remains unchanged.