On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:38:38PM -0800, Allen, Jack wrote: > Hello: > I am trying to track down what I think is a bug in the login > program and I want to look at the source. I have determined that > /bin/login is provided by util-linux-XXXXXXXXXXX. So I have found the CD > that contains util-linux-XXXXXXXX.src.rpm, but I don't know the exact > options to rpm to see what's in the rpm file and to extract the files I > want to look at. I would rather extract the file relative to some > directory I am in, not to /usr/src/redhat/*. > > I have read the man page on rpm and tried a few things, but do > not seem to be able to do what I want. > > So can some one provide me with the proper options to use? > Really the easiest thing is probably to use the /usr/src/redhat directory. # rpm -ivh <srcrpm> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES You should see the tarball there along with patches are used to patch the tarball before it's compiled. You might perform one further step: # rpmbuild -bp /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/util-linux.spec # cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD This will extract the tarball and apply the RH patches in a subdirectory under BUILD. You can jump in this directory and poke around. Ray -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
