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 > -- > / \__ > ( @\___ Raj Shekhar > / O My home : http://geocities.com/lunatech3007/ > / (_____/ My blog : http://lunatech.journalspace.com/ > /_____/ U > > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
