On 02/21/13 08:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:21:28 +0100 poma pomidorabelisima@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/21/13 02:47, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:30:50 -0800 Rick Stevens ricks@alldigital.com wrote:
On 02/20/2013 05:16 PM, Ranjan Maitra issued this missive:
Hello,
I was wondering if it is possible to download a spec file using yum or rpm only (without downloading the rpm)?
Don't think so. The spec files are part of the srpm generally, so you'd need to grab that, install the srpm and grab the spec from your "~/rpmbuild/SPECS" directory.
Thanks, Rick! I would think so too but here it says that there is a way out:
from https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/how-to-extract-spec-f...
rpm --scripts -qp my-great-app-1.1.2.rpm
My question therefore is: is it possible to achieve this without downloading the rpm for my-great-app (of course, assuming the same is in the Fedora repos).
Sorry I should have been clearer in my first message.
There is no scriptlet(s) repo, neither spec repo. Make difference between scriptlet(s) and spec file, also between binary and source rpm:
- "foobar.rpm" == RPM binary(bin) - beside others, possibly contains
"…the package specific scriptlet(s) that are used as part of the installation and uninstallation processes"- man rpm 8. One can download binary rpm: yumdownloader foobar and list/concatenate it(them): rpm --scripts -qp foobar.rpm
- "foobar.src.rpm" == RPM source(src) - beside others, contains spec
file - building specification. One can download source rpm: yumdownloader --source foobar and extract it: rpm2cpio foobar*.src.rpm | cpio -idmuv *.spec
Thanks very much for the detailed descriptions! I was wondering also: is it possible to pull the .tar.gz (and/or the patches) in a package SRPM using the above commands (such as rpm2cpio)?
As Mich added, you should specify required file(s) - archived&compressed source, patch(es)/diff(s) and spec, or just omit it/them and you'll get all extracted: rpm2cpio foobar*.src.rpm | cpio -idmuv
Cheers, poma