[Arm-dev] How to extract the sources from a src.rpm

[Johnny Hughes]

On 12/18/2015 12:32 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
> mkdir fedora-arm-installer
> cd fedora-arm-installer
> rpm -ivh --define "%_topdir `pwd`"
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/23/Everything/source/SRPMS/f/fedora-arm-installer-1.99.5-1.fc23.src.rpm
> 
> What you'll end up with is very similar to the directory structure used
> for git.centos. A SOURCES dir, with the tarball, and SPECS, with the spec.
> 
> The alternative would be to use fedpkg from epel and "fedpkg -a clone -b
> f23 fedora-arm-installer" then cd to the resulting directory and "fedpkg
> sources"
> 

or wget it and then use:

rpm2cpio fedora-arm-installer-1.99.5-1.fc23.src.rpm | cpio -idv

that will extract it to the current directory

> 
> 
> On 12/18/2015 11:22 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> I want to look at what is in the fedora-arm-installer to compare it with
>> what I have been using without installing it.
>>
>> So I found the src.rpm at
>>
>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/23/Everything/source/SRPMS/f/fedora-arm-installer-1.99.5-1.fc23.src.rpm
>>
>>
>> 'all' I want to do is in some directory pull out all the sources to look
>> at.
>>
>> All experience I have with working with src.rpm stuff is probably 5+
>> years old and the brain is just too filled with other cruft, so I am
>> asking just a little guidance here.
>>
>> If I can figure this out, I can perhaps help Fabian easily add lots of
>> other boards.
>>
>>
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