Thanks - that works nicely. Only catch is that you have to know the name of the spec file ahead of time - not too hard to figure out though. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Tanner" <tanner at real-time.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] SPEC from SRPMS without --rebuild > Quoting Thomas T. Veldhouse (veldy at veldy.net): > > Can anybody tell me how the SPEC file can be extracted from a SRPMS without > > using the --rebuild switch for rpm? I need to examine some of the SPEC > > files, but I don't want to accidentally build and install the package. > > rpm2cpio blah.rpm | cpio --extract blah.spec > >