[Mageia-dev] source rpms - newbie question

Jani Välimaa jani.valimaa at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 16:17:20 CEST 2012


On 19.07.2012 17:10, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:02:41PM +1000, blind Pete wrote:
>> Either way, what is the approved method of looking at the contents 
>> of a *.src.rpm file?  An RTFM is perfectly apropriate here - as 
>> long as it includes a link to the FM.  
> 
> For just a .src.rpm, I use mc. Just press enter on the file and you can
> inspect it + easily copy the files you want out of it.
> 

You can also open .src.rpms with archive managers like file-roller or
xarchiver and browse the content.


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