10-16-2014
First time AIX: question about updates
On HP_UX i download the patches and then install with swinstall
On AIX,i found "service packs" but there are many,i have to install all service packs,or the latest is ok?
Thanks
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NAME
spectool - manual page for spectool v1.0.10rpmdev1
SYNOPSIS
spectool [<options>] <specfile>
DESCRIPTION
Spectool is a tool to expand and download sources and patches from specfiles.
If you experience problems with specific specfiles, try to run
rpmbuild --nobuild --nodeps <specfile>
on the file which might give a clue why spectool fails on a file (ignore anything about missing sources or patches). The plan is to catch
errors like this in spectool itself and warn the user about it in the future.
OPTIONS
Operating mode:
-l, --lf, --list-files
lists the expanded sources/patches (default)
-g, --gf, --get-files
gets the sources/patches that are listed with a URL
-h, --help
display this help screen
Files on which to operate:
-A, --all
all files, sources and patches (default)
-S, --sources
all sources
-P, --patches
all patches
-s, --source x[,y[,...]]
specified sources
-p, --patch a[,b[,...]]
specified patches
Miscellaneous:
-d, --define 'macro value'
defines RPM macro 'macro' to be 'value'
-C, --directory dir
download into specified directory (default '.')
-R, --sourcedir
download into rpm's %{_sourcedir}
-n, --dryrun, --dry-run
don't download anything, just show what would be done
-f, --force
try to unlink and download if target files exist
-D, --debug
output debug info, don't clean up when done
FILES
/etc/rpmdevtools/curlrc
optional curl(1) configuration
spectool v1.0.10rpmdev1 June 2014 SPECTOOL(1)