Re: rpm question

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>I have executed rpm on a package file with
>>rpm -qpl ./xxx-ver.rpm
>>it gives me a list of files it contains quite well.
>Wish I had known that earlier.  I've been trying to compile programs
>that require particular versions of utilities which are imbedded in rpm
>files. Can one do this on an uninstalled rpm?  Should read the rpm man pages,
>I know.
>>For the life of me I can't find in the man page what the command is to
>>extract a file from this rpm.  Can anyone help.
>>I'm looking for  something like:
>>rpm -?p? ./packagefilename filetoextract locationtoextract
>>I'm sure I remember this is possible.  Thanks in advance.
>Looking forward to responses,   Ralph  deal@kzoo.edu

I think what you want is rpm2cpio,  which converts an RPM into a simple CPIO
archive you can extract/inject files from/to with the cpio command.

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