Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 18:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

but it's a little high-handed to not explain how to do something because you've decided it's not something you want *others* to know.

There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the source.

Install rpmdevtools. Run rpmdev-setuptree

Pick your favourite mirror. Navigate to the src directory that you're interested in, download the src.rpm

rpm -i whatever.src.rpm

Your rpm contents are now in ~/rpmbuild. Examine away. The spec is in ~/rpmbuild/SPECS, the source code is in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES

Compile it with rpmbuild -ba whatever.spec. Your binary will be in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS and the new src.rpm is in ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS.