diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 692dbbd..9f54666 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ install-programs:
 	@$(INSTALL_SCRIPT) autoport-launcher $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/autoport-launcher
 	@$(INSTALL_SCRIPT) autoport-chroot $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/autoport-chroot
 	@$(INSTALL_SCRIPT) automaint $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/automaint
+	@$(INSTALL_SCRIPT) autodist-inspect $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/autodist-inspect
 	@$(INSTALL_SCRIPT) autodist-repository $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/autodist-repository
 	@$(INSTALL_SCRIPT) autodist-upstream-updates $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/autodist-upstream-updates
 	@$(INSTALL_SCRIPT) autoport-fix-environment $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/autoport-fix-environment
diff --git a/autodist-inspect b/autodist-inspect
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..24ad096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/autodist-inspect
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+[ -e /etc/autodist/config ] || {
+   echo "ERROR: missing configuration file /etc/autodist/config."
+   exit 1
+}
+
+. /etc/autodist/config
+
+shopt -s nocaseglob
+checkpkg=$1
+
+if [ ! "$checkpkg" ]; then
+   echo "Usage:
+$0 query"
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+[ "$LOCAL_REPS_BASE_DIR" -a -e "$LOCAL_REPS_BASE_DIR" ] || {
+   echo "ERROR: LOCAL_REPS_BASE_DIR needs to be defined and local repositories to exists."
+   exit 1
+}
+
+echo "=== distromatic sources: ==="
+head -n2 ${LOCAL_REPS_BASE_DIR}/distromatic/base/sources
+grep -i $checkpkg ${LOCAL_REPS_BASE_DIR}/distromatic/base/sources
+#tail -n+2 ${PREFIX}/distromatic/base/deps-* | grep -i $checkpkg 
+echo -e "\n=== distdb: ==="
+grep -i $checkpkg ${LOCAL_REPS_BASE_DIR}/base/distdb
+for repo in base devel-makedist devel-autodist devel-misc; do
+   echo -e "\n=== ${repo}: ==="
+   ls ${LOCAL_REPS_BASE_DIR}/${repo}/SRPMS.base/*$checkpkg* 2>/dev/null
+   ls ${LOCAL_REPS_BASE_DIR}/${repo}/RPMS.*/*$checkpkg* 2>/dev/null
+done