On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:16:08PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I was wondering if it is possible to download a spec file using yum > or rpm only (without downloading the rpm)? No, but there's a better way! All of our spec files are available in git, and the "fedpkg" command is a nice wrapper around access to the repository. So: $ sudo yum install fedpkg [...] $ fedpkg clone firefox Cloning into 'firefox'... remote: Counting objects: 3234, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1979/1979), done. remote: Total 3234 (delta 1702), reused 2424 (delta 1210) Receiving objects: 100% (3234/3234), 741.50 KiB | 313 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1702/1702), done. $ cd firefox/ $ ls firefox.1 firefox-mozconfig-branded firefox-15.0-enable-addons.patch firefox-mozconfig-debuginfo firefox-5.0-asciidel.patch firefox-redhat-default-prefs.js firefox.desktop firefox.sh.in firefox-duckduckgo.patch firefox.spec firefox-install-dir.patch sources firefox-mozconfig So you get the spec file and all of the patches. The "sources" file contains the checksums of the source files in the buildsystem's cache, and if you decide you want those too, you can pull them down with `fedpkg sources`. I find this much more convenient than simply downloading the spec files individually anyway, and usually better than source RPMs, as you get all of the branches for different Fedora releases (try `fedpkg switch-branch`) and can do all of the normal git version control things to see, for example, what has changed. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
