Re: Extract source URLs from RPM spec files

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Thursday, 06 December 2007, at 22:57:27 (+0100),
Mildred wrote:

> I would like to create a probram that would download automatically
> the source files of packages given a spec file and build it using
> rpmbuild.

I believe rpmbuild in RPM 5 already does this.

> But I just wonder how to extract the source URLs from the spec
> file. I can't use standard srep and sed since often the Source line
> contains variables that need to be resolved.
> 
> I found that rpm has an option --specfile that seems deigned for
> that purpose. But rpm do not seems to be aware of the source
> filenames unfortunately.
> 
> Does anyone knows how I could extract this information without
> writing a spec file parser ?

rpm --eval "`cat foo.spec`" will get you most of the way there.

Michael

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