Cool!! Thanks a ton raj.

Regards,
Akshay


----- Original Message -----
From: Raj Shekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:55 pm
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Reverse Engineering

> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:50, Akshay Lamba wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >   Is it possible to reverse engineer an rpm? That is, is it 
> possible 
> > for me to see a SPEC file from which an rpm was created somehow?
> 
> If you have Midnight commander (mc) installed, you can navigate a 
> RPM as
> if it were a folder. Type mc on the command line, and navigate to the
> folder where the RPM file is stored. When you click on the RPM 
> file, it
> will open up like a folder. You will find a folder named "INFO", enter
> into it. There will be files named like "BUILDHOST", "GROUP" etc. 
> Thesecorrespond to the arious sections of the spec file. For 
> example, to view
> the "BUILDHOST" section, position your cursor over the file named
> "BUILDHOST", and press "F3". That will show you the contents of the
> file. Press "F10" to exit. 
> 
> HTH
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