diff --git a/osc/commandline.py b/osc/commandline.py
index fb9d8e4f..1a84dc3e 100755
--- a/osc/commandline.py
+++ b/osc/commandline.py
@@ -2103,6 +2103,58 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
             print wipebinaries(conf.config['apiurl'], args[0], package, opts.arch, opts.repo, code)
 
 
+    @cmdln.option('-q', '--quiet', action='store_true',
+                  help='do not show downloading progress')
+    @cmdln.option('-d', '--destdir', default='.', metavar='DIR',
+                  help='destination directory')
+    def do_getbinaries(self, subcmd, opts, project, package, repository, architecture):
+        """${cmd_name}: Download binaries to a local directory
+
+        This command does download packages directly from the api server. 
+        Thus, it does directly access the packages that are used for building
+        others, even when they are "published" yet.
+
+        ${cmd_usage}
+        ${cmd_option_list}
+        """
+
+        # Get package list
+        binaries = get_binarylist(conf.config['apiurl'], 
+                                   project, repository, architecture, 
+                                   package = package, verbose=True)
+
+        if not os.path.isdir(opts.destdir):
+            print "Creating %s" % opts.destdir
+            os.makedirs(opts.destdir, 0755)
+
+        if binaries == [ ]:
+            sys.exit('no binaries found. Either the package does not '
+                     'exist, or no binaries have been built.')
+
+        for binary in binaries:
+
+            # skip source rpms
+            if binary.name.endswith('.src.rpm'):
+                continue
+
+            target_filename = '%s/%s' % (opts.destdir, binary.name)
+
+            if os.path.exists(target_filename):
+                st = os.stat(target_filename)
+                if st.st_mtime == binary.mtime and st.st_size == binary.size:
+                    continue
+
+            get_binary_file(conf.config['apiurl'], 
+                            project, 
+                            repository, architecture, 
+                            binary.name, 
+                            package = package,
+                            target_filename = target_filename,
+                            target_mtime = binary.mtime,
+                            progress_meter = not opts.quiet)
+
+
+
     @cmdln.option('--repos-baseurl', action='store_true',
                         help='show base URLs of download repositories')
     @cmdln.option('-e', '--enable-exact', action='store_true',
diff --git a/osc/core.py b/osc/core.py
index bbc7b18f..f8970bb6 100755
--- a/osc/core.py
+++ b/osc/core.py
@@ -2048,9 +2048,13 @@ def get_source_file(apiurl, prj, package, filename, targetfilename=None, revisio
 
 
 def get_binary_file(apiurl, prj, repo, arch, 
-                    filename, targetfilename=None, 
-                    package=None,
-                    progress_meter=False):
+                    filename, 
+                    package = None,
+                    target_filename = None, 
+                    target_mtime = None,
+                    progress_meter = False):
+
+    target_filename = target_filename or filename
 
     where = package or '_repository'
     u = makeurl(apiurl, ['build', prj, repo, arch, where, filename])
@@ -2064,26 +2068,35 @@ def get_binary_file(apiurl, prj, repo, arch,
 
     import tempfile
     (fd, tmpfilename) = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix = filename + '.', suffix = '.osc', dir = '/tmp')
+    os.chmod(tmpfilename, 0644)
 
-    o = os.fdopen(fd, 'w')
+    try:
+        o = os.fdopen(fd, 'w')
+
+        downloaded = 0
+        while 1:
+            #buf = f.read(BUFSIZE)
+            buf = f.read(16384)
+            if not buf: break
+            o.write(buf)
+            downloaded += len(buf)
+            if progress_meter:
+                completion = str(int((float(downloaded)/binsize)*100))
+                sys.stdout.write('%s%*s%%]' % ('\b'*5, 3, completion))
+                sys.stdout.flush()
+        o.close()
 
-    downloaded = 0
-    while 1:
-        #buf = f.read(BUFSIZE)
-        buf = f.read(16384)
-        if not buf: break
-        o.write(buf)
-        downloaded += len(buf)
         if progress_meter:
-            completion = str(int((float(downloaded)/binsize)*100))
-            sys.stdout.write('%s%*s%%]' % ('\b'*5, 3, completion))
-            sys.stdout.flush()
-    o.close()
+            sys.stdout.write('\n')
 
-    if progress_meter:
-        sys.stdout.write('\n')
+        shutil.move(tmpfilename, target_filename)
+        if target_mtime:
+            os.utime(target_filename, (-1, target_mtime))
 
-    shutil.move(tmpfilename, targetfilename or filename)
+    # make sure that the temp file is cleaned up when we are interrupted 
+    finally:
+        try: os.unlink(tmpfilename)
+        except: pass
 
 
 def dgst(file):
@@ -2542,13 +2555,22 @@ def get_repos_of_project(apiurl, prj):
             yield repo_line_templ % (node.get('name'), node2.text)
 
 
-def get_binarylist(apiurl, prj, repo, arch, package=None):
+def get_binarylist(apiurl, prj, repo, arch, package=None, verbose=False):
     what = package or '_repository'
     u = makeurl(apiurl, ['build', prj, repo, arch, what])
     f = http_GET(u)
     tree = ET.parse(f)
-    r = [ node.get('filename') for node in tree.findall('binary')]
-    return r
+    if not verbose:
+        return [ node.get('filename') for node in tree.findall('binary')]
+    else:
+        l = []
+        for node in tree.findall('binary'):
+            f = File(node.get('filename'), 
+                     None, 
+                     int(node.get('size')), 
+                     int(node.get('mtime')))
+            l.append(f)
+        return l
 
 
 def get_binarylist_published(apiurl, prj, repo, arch):