I'm looking for a way to find the actual rpm's that yum is using and preferably the location from which they were downloaded. For instance when I do 'yum install httpd' it shows:

httpd-tools-2.2.15-1.fc13_2.2.16-1.fc13.i686.drpm
and
httpd-2.2.16-1.fc13.i686.rpm

These files seem to be kept at /var/cache/yum/i386/13/updates/packages/ but I'd like to either be able to download them without installing or preferably see the location from which they are downloaded. Is there a way to do this?

I want to be able to create a repository for the rpms used for a demonstration of a software install using another software product. I have a 'stock' fedora and redhat virtual machine that I want to be able to replicate and use the product to install rpms on the new clone. So this process of being able to see all of the rpms yum would need to install without actually doing it would be helpful.

Download packages without installing them is the "--downloadonly" Yum switch. You can use "rpm -qp --qf="%{name} %{vendor}\n /path/to/package.rpm" to show you which repo it belongs to. Yum will AFAIK not show the exact URI a file was downloaded from, wouldn't make any sense for Yum (also: "fastestmirror" plugin) or RPM to store that kind of information anyway, but proxying Yum requests may help capture the exact URI.