diff --git a/bin/spark-submit b/bin/spark-submit
index 3e5cbdbb24394..bf826ff95b5ba 100755
--- a/bin/spark-submit
+++ b/bin/spark-submit
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ while (($#)); do
     export SPARK_SUBMIT_CLASSPATH=$2
   elif [ "$1" = "--driver-java-options" ]; then
     export SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTS=$2
+  elif [ "$1" = "--packages" ]; then
+    export SPARK_SUBMIT_PACKAGES=$2
+  elif [ "$1" = "--repositories" ]; then
+    export SPARK_SUBMIT_REPOSITORIES=$2
   elif [ "$1" = "--master" ]; then
     export MASTER=$2
   fi
@@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ if [[ "$SPARK_SUBMIT_DEPLOY_MODE" == "client" && -f "$SPARK_SUBMIT_PROPERTIES_FI
     grep -e "spark.driver.extra*\|spark.driver.memory" "$SPARK_SUBMIT_PROPERTIES_FILE" | \
     grep -v "^[[:space:]]*#"
   )
-  if [ -n "$contains_special_configs" ]; then
+  if [[ -n "$contains_special_configs" || -n "$SPARK_SUBMIT_PACKAGES" ]]; then
     export SPARK_SUBMIT_BOOTSTRAP_DRIVER=1
   fi
 fi
diff --git a/bin/spark-submit2.cmd b/bin/spark-submit2.cmd
index 446cbc74b74f9..1b638553e86ca 100644
--- a/bin/spark-submit2.cmd
+++ b/bin/spark-submit2.cmd
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ if [%1] == [] goto continue
     set SPARK_SUBMIT_CLASSPATH=%2
   ) else if [%1] == [--driver-java-options] (
     set SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTS=%2
+  ) else if [%1] == [--packages] (
+    set SPARK_SUBMIT_PACKAGES=%2
+  ) else if [%1] == [--repositories] (
+    set SPARK_SUBMIT_REPOSITORIES=%2
   ) else if [%1] == [--master] (
     set MASTER=%2
   )
@@ -72,6 +76,9 @@ if [%SPARK_SUBMIT_DEPLOY_MODE%] == [client] (
       %SPARK_SUBMIT_PROPERTIES_FILE%') do (
       set SPARK_SUBMIT_BOOTSTRAP_DRIVER=1
     )
+    if [%SPARK_SUBMIT_PACKAGES%] NEQ [] (
+      set SPARK_SUBMIT_BOOTSTRAP_DRIVER=1
+    )
   )
 )
 
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmit.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmit.scala
index 4c4110812e0a1..6bf9414570120 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmit.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmit.scala
@@ -251,24 +251,19 @@ object SparkSubmit {
     }
 
     val isYarnCluster = clusterManager == YARN && deployMode == CLUSTER
-
-    // Resolve maven dependencies if there are any and add classpath to jars. Add them to py-files
-    // too for packages that include Python code
-    val resolvedMavenCoordinates =
-      SparkSubmitUtils.resolveMavenCoordinates(
-        args.packages, Option(args.repositories), Option(args.ivyRepoPath))
-    if (!resolvedMavenCoordinates.trim.isEmpty) {
-      if (args.jars == null || args.jars.trim.isEmpty) {
-        args.jars = resolvedMavenCoordinates
+    val packagesResolved =
+      if (args.packagesResolved != null) {
+        // SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper already downloaded the jars for us
+        args.packagesResolved
       } else {
-        args.jars += s",$resolvedMavenCoordinates"
+        SparkSubmitUtils.resolveMavenCoordinates(args.packages, Option(args.repositories), 
+          Option(args.ivyRepoPath)).mkString(",")
       }
+
+    if (packagesResolved.nonEmpty) {
+      args.jars = mergeFileLists(args.jars, packagesResolved)
       if (args.isPython) {
-        if (args.pyFiles == null || args.pyFiles.trim.isEmpty) {
-          args.pyFiles = resolvedMavenCoordinates
-        } else {
-          args.pyFiles += s",$resolvedMavenCoordinates"
-        }
+        args.pyFiles = mergeFileLists(args.pyFiles, packagesResolved)
       }
     }
 
@@ -655,8 +650,7 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitUtils {
 
 /**
  * Extracts maven coordinates from a comma-delimited string. Coordinates should be provided
- * in the format `groupId:artifactId:version` or `groupId/artifactId:version`. The latter provides
- * simplicity for Spark Package users.
+ * in the format `groupId:artifactId:version` or `groupId/artifactId:version`.
  * @param coordinates Comma-delimited string of maven coordinates
  * @return Sequence of Maven coordinates
  */
@@ -721,17 +715,17 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitUtils {
    * after a '!' by Ivy. It also sometimes contains '(bundle)' after '.jar'. Remove that as well.
    * @param artifacts Sequence of dependencies that were resolved and retrieved
    * @param cacheDirectory directory where jars are cached
-   * @return a comma-delimited list of paths for the dependencies
+   * @return A sequence of paths for the dependencies
    */
   private[spark] def resolveDependencyPaths(
       artifacts: Array[AnyRef],
-      cacheDirectory: File): String = {
+      cacheDirectory: File): Seq[String] = {
     artifacts.map { artifactInfo =>
       val artifactString = artifactInfo.toString
       val jarName = artifactString.drop(artifactString.lastIndexOf("!") + 1)
       cacheDirectory.getAbsolutePath + File.separator +
         jarName.substring(0, jarName.lastIndexOf(".jar") + 4)
-    }.mkString(",")
+    }
   }
 
   /** Adds the given maven coordinates to Ivy's module descriptor. */
@@ -748,6 +742,35 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitUtils {
     }
   }
 
+  /** Add exclusion rules for dependencies already included in the spark-assembly */
+  private[spark] def addExclusionRules(
+      ivySettings: IvySettings,
+      ivyConfName: String,
+      md: DefaultModuleDescriptor): Unit = {
+    // Add scala exclusion rule
+    val scalaArtifacts = new ArtifactId(new ModuleId("*", "scala-library"), "*", "*", "*")
+    val scalaDependencyExcludeRule =
+      new DefaultExcludeRule(scalaArtifacts, ivySettings.getMatcher("glob"), null)
+    scalaDependencyExcludeRule.addConfiguration(ivyConfName)
+    md.addExcludeRule(scalaDependencyExcludeRule)
+
+    // We need to specify each component explicitly, otherwise we miss spark-streaming-kafka and
+    // other spark-streaming utility components. Underscore is there to differentiate between
+    // spark-streaming_2.1x and spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.1x
+    val components = Seq("bagel_", "catalyst_", "core_", "graphx_", "hive_", "mllib_", "repl_",
+      "sql_", "streaming_", "yarn_", "network-common_", "network-shuffle_", "network-yarn_")
+    
+    components.foreach { comp =>
+      val sparkArtifacts =
+        new ArtifactId(new ModuleId("org.apache.spark", s"spark-$comp*"), "*", "*", "*")
+      val sparkDependencyExcludeRule =
+        new DefaultExcludeRule(sparkArtifacts, ivySettings.getMatcher("glob"), null)
+      sparkDependencyExcludeRule.addConfiguration(ivyConfName)
+
+      md.addExcludeRule(sparkDependencyExcludeRule)
+    }
+  }
+
   /** A nice function to use in tests as well. Values are dummy strings. */
   private[spark] def getModuleDescriptor = DefaultModuleDescriptor.newDefaultInstance(
     ModuleRevisionId.newInstance("org.apache.spark", "spark-submit-parent", "1.0"))
@@ -757,17 +780,20 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitUtils {
    * @param coordinates Comma-delimited string of maven coordinates
    * @param remoteRepos Comma-delimited string of remote repositories other than maven central
    * @param ivyPath The path to the local ivy repository
-   * @return The comma-delimited path to the jars of the given maven artifacts including their
+   * @return A sequence of paths to the jars of the given maven artifacts including their
    *         transitive dependencies
    */
   private[spark] def resolveMavenCoordinates(
       coordinates: String,
       remoteRepos: Option[String],
       ivyPath: Option[String],
-      isTest: Boolean = false): String = {
+      isTest: Boolean = false): Seq[String] = {
     if (coordinates == null || coordinates.trim.isEmpty) {
-      ""
+      Seq.empty
     } else {
+      val sysOut = System.out
+      // To prevent ivy from logging to system out
+      System.setOut(printStream)
       val artifacts = extractMavenCoordinates(coordinates)
       // Default configuration name for ivy
       val ivyConfName = "default"
@@ -811,19 +837,9 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitUtils {
       val md = getModuleDescriptor
       md.setDefaultConf(ivyConfName)
 
-      // Add an exclusion rule for Spark and Scala Library
-      val sparkArtifacts = new ArtifactId(new ModuleId("org.apache.spark", "*"), "*", "*", "*")
-      val sparkDependencyExcludeRule =
-        new DefaultExcludeRule(sparkArtifacts, ivySettings.getMatcher("glob"), null)
-      sparkDependencyExcludeRule.addConfiguration(ivyConfName)
-      val scalaArtifacts = new ArtifactId(new ModuleId("*", "scala-library"), "*", "*", "*")
-      val scalaDependencyExcludeRule =
-        new DefaultExcludeRule(scalaArtifacts, ivySettings.getMatcher("glob"), null)
-      scalaDependencyExcludeRule.addConfiguration(ivyConfName)
-
-      // Exclude any Spark dependencies, and add all supplied maven artifacts as dependencies
-      md.addExcludeRule(sparkDependencyExcludeRule)
-      md.addExcludeRule(scalaDependencyExcludeRule)
+      // Add exclusion rules for Spark and Scala Library
+      addExclusionRules(ivySettings, ivyConfName, md)
+      // add all supplied maven artifacts as dependencies
       addDependenciesToIvy(md, artifacts, ivyConfName)
 
       // resolve dependencies
@@ -836,6 +852,7 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitUtils {
         packagesDirectory.getAbsolutePath + File.separator + "[artifact](-[classifier]).[ext]",
         retrieveOptions.setConfs(Array(ivyConfName)))
 
+      System.setOut(sysOut)
       resolveDependencyPaths(rr.getArtifacts.toArray, packagesDirectory)
     }
   }
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala
index 82e66a374249c..5ff3369e46921 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ private[spark] class SparkSubmitArguments(args: Seq[String], env: Map[String, St
   var childArgs: ArrayBuffer[String] = new ArrayBuffer[String]()
   var jars: String = null
   var packages: String = null
+  var packagesResolved: String = null
   var repositories: String = null
   var ivyRepoPath: String = null
   var verbose: Boolean = false
@@ -395,6 +396,12 @@ private[spark] class SparkSubmitArguments(args: Seq[String], env: Map[String, St
         packages = value
         parse(tail)
 
+      // Spark-6031 Internal flag to receive the resolved maven jars and add to --jars. 
+      // This is only passed through the Bootstrapper
+      case ("--packages-resolved") :: value :: tail =>
+        packagesResolved = Utils.resolveURIs(value)
+        parse(tail)
+
       case ("--repositories") :: value :: tail =>
         repositories = value
         parse(tail)
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper.scala
index 2eab9981845e8..c56ad49df3efa 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper.scala
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper {
       System.exit(1)
     }
 
-    val submitArgs = args
+    var submitArgs = args
     val runner = sys.env("RUNNER")
     val classpath = sys.env("CLASSPATH")
     val javaOpts = sys.env("JAVA_OPTS")
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper {
     val submitLibraryPath = sys.env.get("SPARK_SUBMIT_LIBRARY_PATH")
     val submitClasspath = sys.env.get("SPARK_SUBMIT_CLASSPATH")
     val submitJavaOpts = sys.env.get("SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTS")
+    val submitPackages = sys.env.getOrElse("SPARK_SUBMIT_PACKAGES", "")
+    val submitRepositories = sys.env.get("SPARK_SUBMIT_REPOSITORIES")
 
     assume(runner != null, "RUNNER must be set")
     assume(classpath != null, "CLASSPATH must be set")
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper {
     val confLibraryPath = properties.get("spark.driver.extraLibraryPath")
     val confClasspath = properties.get("spark.driver.extraClassPath")
     val confJavaOpts = properties.get("spark.driver.extraJavaOptions")
+    val confIvyRepo = properties.get("spark.jars.ivy")
 
     // Favor Spark submit arguments over the equivalent configs in the properties file.
     // Note that we do not actually use the Spark submit values for library path, classpath,
@@ -82,13 +85,25 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper {
       .orElse(confDriverMemory)
       .getOrElse(defaultDriverMemory)
 
-    val newClasspath =
+    var newClasspath =
       if (submitClasspath.isDefined) {
         classpath
       } else {
         classpath + confClasspath.map(sys.props("path.separator") + _).getOrElse("")
       }
 
+    // Resolve maven dependencies if there are any and add them to classpath. Also send them
+    // to SparkSubmit so that they can be shipped to executors.
+    val resolvedMavenCoordinates =
+      SparkSubmitUtils.resolveMavenCoordinates(
+        submitPackages, submitRepositories, confIvyRepo)
+    if (resolvedMavenCoordinates.nonEmpty) {
+      newClasspath += sys.props("path.separator") + 
+        resolvedMavenCoordinates.mkString(sys.props("path.separator"))
+      submitArgs = 
+        Array("--packages-resolved", resolvedMavenCoordinates.mkString(",")) ++ submitArgs
+    }
+
     val newJavaOpts =
       if (submitJavaOpts.isDefined) {
         // SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTS is already captured in JAVA_OPTS
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitUtilsSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitUtilsSuite.scala
index ad62b35f624f6..def7056e4ac0f 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitUtilsSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitUtilsSuite.scala
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ class SparkSubmitUtilsSuite extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
     val ivyPath = "dummy/ivy"
     val md = SparkSubmitUtils.getModuleDescriptor
     val artifacts = for (i <- 0 until 3) yield new MDArtifact(md, s"jar-$i", "jar", "jar")
-    var jPaths = SparkSubmitUtils.resolveDependencyPaths(artifacts.toArray, new File(ivyPath))
+    var jPaths = 
+      SparkSubmitUtils.resolveDependencyPaths(artifacts.toArray, new File(ivyPath)).mkString(",")
     for (i <- 0 until 3) {
       val index = jPaths.indexOf(ivyPath)
       assert(index >= 0)
@@ -99,13 +100,13 @@ class SparkSubmitUtilsSuite extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
     }
     // end to end
     val jarPath = SparkSubmitUtils.resolveMavenCoordinates(
-      "com.databricks:spark-csv_2.10:0.1", None, Option(ivyPath), true)
+      "com.databricks:spark-csv_2.10:0.1", None, Option(ivyPath), true).mkString(",")
     assert(jarPath.indexOf(ivyPath) >= 0, "should use non-default ivy path")
   }
 
   test("search for artifact at other repositories") {
     val path = SparkSubmitUtils.resolveMavenCoordinates("com.agimatec:agimatec-validation:0.9.3",
-      Option("https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/agimatec/"), None, true)
+      Option("https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/agimatec/"), None, true).mkString(",")
     assert(path.indexOf("agimatec-validation") >= 0, "should find package. If it doesn't, check" +
       "if package still exists. If it has been removed, replace the example in this test.")
   }
@@ -117,8 +118,20 @@ class SparkSubmitUtilsSuite extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
   }
 
   test("neglects Spark and Spark's dependencies") {
+    val components = Seq("bagel_", "catalyst_", "core_", "graphx_", "hive_", "mllib_", "repl_",
+      "sql_", "streaming_", "yarn_", "network-common_", "network-shuffle_", "network-yarn_")
+    
+    val coordinates = 
+      components.map(comp => s"org.apache.spark:spark-${comp}2.10:1.2.0").mkString(",") + 
+      ",org.apache.spark:spark-core_fake:1.2.0"
     val path = SparkSubmitUtils.resolveMavenCoordinates(
-      "org.apache.spark:spark-core_2.10:1.2.0", None, None, true)
+      coordinates, None, None, true).mkString(",")
     assert(path === "", "should return empty path")
+    // Should not exclude the following dependency. Will throw an error, because it doesn't exist, 
+    // but the fact that it is checking means that it wasn't excluded.
+    intercept[RuntimeException] {
+      SparkSubmitUtils.resolveMavenCoordinates(coordinates + 
+        ",org.apache.spark:spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.10:1.2.0", None, None, true)
+    }
   }
 }