how to get a specfile from an RPM

[Todd Zullinger]

Hale Boyes, Kevin  wrote:
> Given an RPM, is there a way to get the spec file that was used to
> build it?

To get the spec file you would need to get the corresponding source
rpm that created the binary rpm.  You can get a lot of information
from the binary package, but AFAIK you can't get the raw spec file.

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