ro access to package versions

Hi guys, I'm working on a script for Gentoo to automatically create ebuilds of all the PEAR packages (which are badly outdated). I poked through the PEAR packages on my hd to see if there was any repository data, but I couldn't find any, and I'm assuming it's hititng your server to get the latest package info. Right now, I'm getting my data by scraping it using "pear remote-info <package>", which works fine, though its a bit tedious. Plus as screen scrapes go, they can break anytime the data format changes. What I wanted to know is if there's some file I'm missing that has the current repository/dependency info that's local on my box that I can grep through OR if there's not -- is there anyway I could get read-only access to that data somehow? CSV, DB access, anything in stylized format would be great. All I need is this: package name package version [stable] package version [latest] and that's it. Package dependencies if you can manage that too. Is that a possibility? Thanks Steve