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
