spectool2

For my awesome RHEL 6/7 repository, I needed a tool to deal with updating some tags and information within the .spec files. I found none that work on the command line.

This is my attempt at hiding the ugly regexes for editing .spec files by extending the standard spectool with "write" capabilities.

BEWARE! I have no Perl experience and things may be super ugly if you look inside :) But it works for me :D

Synopsis

Edit Version

spectool2 --edit-version 4.3.2.1 some.spec # results in Version: 4.3.2.1

Get a global value

spectool2 --get-global --name upstream_version some.spec

Note that --get-global only prints the first occurrence of a global, if there are multiple.

Edit a tag

spectool2 --edit-tag Vendor --value GetPageSpeed some.spec

Note: the tag must already exist for this to work.

Also

The standard spectool function (listing source files and fetching them) is there. The only major change, is that listing a single source file will give you just that, its resource.

So spectool2 --source 0 some.spec will give you some.tar.gz and not Source0: some.tar.gz to assist with scripting.

Installation in CentOS / RHEL 7

yum install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-el7-latest.rpm
yum install spectool2