Re: how to get a specfile from an RPM

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• From: Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:58:50 +0100
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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

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

There's a copy of the .spec file in the SRPM, not in the binary RPM.

-Andy

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