diff --git a/helpers/yum-get-description.py b/helpers/yum-get-description.py
index 424106b..9478456 100755
--- a/helpers/yum-get-description.py
+++ b/helpers/yum-get-description.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2007 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2007 Luke Macken <lmacken@redhat.com>
 #
 # Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2
 #
@@ -9,12 +10,9 @@
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 # (at your option) any later version.
 
-import yum
 import sys
 
-my = yum.YumBase()
-#my.doConfigSetup()
-my.conf.cache = 1
-
-sys.exit(1)
-
+from yumBackend import PackageKitYumBackend
+package = sys.argv[1]
+backend = PackageKitYumBackend(sys.argv[1:])
+backend.get_description(package)