Generate a list of all Fedora packages and their license

rawhide-pkg-licenses.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Writes a file called 'rawhide-pkg-licenses.txt' containing a list of all
# packages in Fedora with their corresponding license.
#
# Before running, you must first warm up the yum cache:
#
#   sudo yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=rawhide-source makecache
#
# Author: Luke Macken <[email protected]>

import yum, operator

yb = yum.YumBase()
for repo in yb.repos.findRepos('*'):
    if repo.id == 'rawhide-source': repo.enable()
    else: repo.disable()

open('rawhide-pkg-licenses.txt', 'w').writelines(('%s %s\n' % (n, l)
    for n, l in sorted(((p.name, p.license)
        for p in yb._getSacks(['src']).returnPackages()),
            key=operator.itemgetter(0))))