Re: [CentOS] Where did yum install monodevelop?

On Mon, 20 May 2013 12:25:08 -0700 John R Pierce wrote:

On 5/20/2013 10:33 AM, Frank Cox wrote:

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I also don't see any place where they are providing source rpms in their repo, though I didn't spend a whole lot of time searching. Therefore, it would be difficult/impossible to check their spec file and see what that package actually does and where it wants to put stuff.

rpm -ql packagename

or,

rpm -qlf rpmfile.rpm

It's entirely possible that I'm missing something, but how does that tell me what pre- and post-install steps the rpm does, or what patches are applied to the binaries? All I get is a list of files and directories. I don't think it's possible to extract a spec file from a binary rpm. Or is it?