O/T: querying an installed RPM's spec file

[Jos Vos]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:54:36AM -0500, Kevin Worthington wrote:

> Hello everyone, sorry for this O/T post, but I know there are many people on this list who may be able to help me.
> I'd like to know if there is a way to query an already installed rpm to view the spec file that was used to build it.
> (Sort of like the way you can view the changelog, uusing the --changelog switch)

The spec file, like the sources and patches, is in the src.rpm
and is not available in the binary rpm and/or the installed rpm
DB, except for some info fields, as you already said yourself.

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