On 02/21/13 02:47, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:30:50 -0800 Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/20/2013 05:16 PM, Ranjan Maitra issued this missive:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if it is possible to download a spec file using yum
>>> or rpm only (without downloading the rpm)?
>>
>> Don't think so. The spec files are part of the srpm generally, so
>> you'd need to grab that, install the srpm and grab the spec from
>> your "~/rpmbuild/SPECS" directory.
> 
> Thanks, Rick! I would think so too but here it says that there is a way
> out:
> 
> from
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/how-to-extract-spec-file-from-rpm-file-426847/
> 
> 
> rpm --scripts -qp my-great-app-1.1.2.rpm
> 
> My question therefore is: is it possible to achieve this without
> downloading the rpm for my-great-app (of course, assuming the same is
> in the Fedora repos).
> 
> Sorry I should have been clearer in my first message.
> 

There is no scriptlet(s) repo, neither spec repo.
Make difference between scriptlet(s) and spec file, also between binary
and source rpm:
- "foobar.rpm" == RPM binary(bin) - beside others, possibly contains
"…the package specific scriptlet(s) that are used as part of the
installation and uninstallation processes"- man rpm 8.
One can download binary rpm:
yumdownloader foobar
and list/concatenate it(them):
rpm --scripts -qp foobar.rpm
- "foobar.src.rpm" == RPM source(src) - beside others, contains spec
file - building specification.
One can download source rpm:
yumdownloader --source foobar
and extract it:
rpm2cpio foobar*.src.rpm | cpio -idmuv *.spec


Cheers,
poma


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