O/T: querying an installed RPM's spec file

[Kevin Worthington]

Hello everyone, sorry for this O/T post, but I know there are many people on this list who may be able to help me.
I'd like to know if there is a way to query an already installed rpm to view the spec file that was used to build it.
(Sort of like the way you can view the changelog, uusing the --changelog switch)
At the moment, I am thinking that this is not possible. Please confirm if this is the case, or how I could do it. Unfortunately the RPM in question is a bit older and I can not find a src.rpm on the net anywhere.
TIA,
Kev

[Lenz Grimmer]

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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Kevin Worthington wrote:
> Hello everyone, sorry for this O/T post, but I know there are many
> people on this list who may be able to help me. I'd like to know if
> there is a way to query an already installed rpm to view the spec file
> that was used to build it. (Sort of like the way you can view the
> changelog, uusing the --changelog switch) At the moment, I am thinking
> that this is not possible. Please confirm if this is the case, or how I
> could do it. Unfortunately the RPM in question is a bit older and I can
> not find a src.rpm on the net anywhere.

Im am not aware of such a possibility. It may be possible with the new
RPMv4, but it's unfortunately still very badly documented :(

I sincerely hope that www.rpm.org will receive some more momentum along
with this Fedora project, too.

Bye,
    LenZ
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[Jos Vos]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:54:36AM -0500, Kevin Worthington wrote:
> Hello everyone, sorry for this O/T post, but I know there are many people on this list who may be able to help me.
> I'd like to know if there is a way to query an already installed rpm to view the spec file that was used to build it.
> (Sort of like the way you can view the changelog, uusing the --changelog switch)

The spec file, like the sources and patches, is in the src.rpm
and is not available in the binary rpm and/or the installed rpm
DB, except for some info fields, as you already said yourself.