is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Thu Feb 21 01:30:50 UTC 2013


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.
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