from the quill of Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Countless times I would like to look into a spec file to see if the
> > resulting binary RPM is going to do/be what I want. It just sucks to
> > have to download a whole source RPM (thinking of the kernel here) just to
> > see what the spec file is going to do when it's possible that the binary
> > RPM will be just what I want.
> >
> > Can we have the spec files in their own directory for easy retrieval?
> >
> You can already access them by the CVS server of cooker. The module is
> SPECS/<package> or contrib-SPECS/<package>. Each module contains the
> spec file and the patches.
Almost cool!! When I check out "SPECS" (into local directory
Mandrake-SPECS) I get not only spec files but (sometimes large) patches for
the package as well. The command I am using is:
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs/cooker co -d Mandrake-SPECS SPECS
So it would still be nice to have a browsable directory (or cvs module)
with *just* spec files in it. I want for instance just the kernel spec
file. How do I know what to check out to get just the spec file?
b.
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