Kent Loobey wrote:
> GnomePM is a GPL program. Red Hat includes it in it's 6.2 distribution. I
> also downloaded the srpm for this program. I want to look at the source
> code. I can't seem to do that. What is the trick to getting at the source
> code for a GPL program?
List the files in the rpm with this command.
% rpm2cpio whatever-1.23.src.rpm | cpio -t
Extract them into the current directory with this.
% rpm2cpio whatever-1.23.src.rpm | cpio -ixv (I think.)
This will give you one or more .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 files, zero or more
.patch files, and a .spec file that includes something like a shell
script that shows how to unpack the tarfiles and apply the patches.
I've never found out how to execute the .spec directly (aside from
rpm --rebuild), so I read them and type in the commands, substituting
variables by hand. There's probably a better way...
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