Online source code browser

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 19:32:41 UTC 2010


On 11/14/2010 10:37 AM, stan wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:17:02 -0800
> JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Is there an online source code browser for Fedora Packages?
> I've never heard of such a thing, and it would be a big project.  I
> hope someone knows of one, it would be convenient.
>
> As far as I'm aware, the way to do this is to create a build tree in
> your home directory,
> rpmdev-setuptree
> and then get the src.rpm package,
> yumdownloader --source<package name>
> and install it in the build tree, as a user.
> rpm -ivh<package name>
> Once this is done, move to the SPEC directory,
> cd ~/rpmbuild/SPEC
> and run the rpmbuild command to unpack everything.
> rpmbuild -bp<package name>.spec
> At this point the source will be unpacked in
> ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/<package name>
> You can then look at it with the editor of your choice.
Right - except that requires googles of storage I do not have :)


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