Re: Rpmbuild question

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On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:50, Tom Ball wrote:
> Is there an easier way to install source for a module so that I can
> debug with it?  Installing the source RPM, bunzip'ing the source bundle
> and then untar'ing it to a directory works, but this seems like a
> common-enough situation that there should be an option to do this in
> rpmbuild.

Install the source rpm you want, then...

rpmbuild -bp <specfile>

The build prep option will unpack the original source and patch them
with any Red Hat patches, and leave the source in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
where you can play with it.

Best Regards,
Keith
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