[desktop-discuss] Feature request for pkgbuild?

[S h i v]

On 8/7/07, Laszlo (Laca) Peter <laca at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Shiv,
>
> Have you tried spectool (comes with pkgbuild)?
> It's a tool for extracting info from spec files, useful for scripting.
> You can do things like this:
>
<snip>
> If it doesn't support everything you need, it's easy to extend it.
>

Nice tool. Below script provides some useful output:
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#!/bin/sh
specfile=SFEbluefish.spec
DOC_PARAM_LIST="sunw_pkg name summary version release license group
patch vendor url packager buildroot requires buildrequires
description"

for DOC_PARAM in $DOC_PARAM_LIST; do
	spectool eval "$DOC_PARAM  =  %$DOC_PARAM" $specfile
done
echo "source  =  `spectool get_sources $specfile`"
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It doesn't provide all that is required, but it is a good starting point.
Do let know if there are any such useful *hidden* utilities associated
with pkgbuild :)

regards
Shiv