[TCLUG] SPEC from SRPMS without --rebuild

[Austad, Jay]

Or just:
rpm -ivh whatver.src.rpm

The SPEC file will be in /usr/src/RPMS/SPEC or something similar depending
on the distribution you have.  To build it, you can just do a rpm -ba
whatever.spec

Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner at real-time.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:10 PM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] SPEC from SRPMS without --rebuild
> 
> 
> Quoting Thomas T. Veldhouse (veldy at veldy.net):
> > Can anybody tell me how the SPEC file can be extracted from 
> a SRPMS without
> > using the --rebuild switch for rpm?  I need to examine some 
> of the SPEC
> > files, but I don't want to accidentally build and install 
> the package.
> 
> rpm2cpio blah.rpm | cpio --extract blah.spec
> 
> 
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