how to get a specfile from an RPM
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Aug 15 00:16:36 UTC 2007
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Hale Boyes, Kevin wrote:
>> I can see the file when I query the SRPM but
>> how do I extract the .spec file from the SRPM?
>
> You could install the srpm. Or you could use a tool like
> rpmdev-extract (from rpmdevtools) to unpack the srpm. Another
> possibility is to use Midnight Commander or the Gnome Archive Manager
> (file-roller) to unpack the srpm.
>
> If you're looking to do this for Fedora rpms, it may be even easier to
> use the CVS interface on the web to view the spec file. For example,
> to see the spec file for the F7 rpmdevtools package, go to:
>
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/rpmdevtools/F-7/rpmdevtools.spec
>
> You can look at the rpmdev-extract script if you want to learn how to
> extract files from an rpm "by hand" -- it's just a shell script.
And you can do it simply by...
rpm2cpio whatever-package.src.rpm | cpio -i *spec
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