How can i use rpm to retrive a specific file from a package?

Sat Jan 10 00:31:06 UTC 2004

Am Sa, den 10.01.2004 schrieb Technical um 01:00:
> I cannot get ti to work; what am I doing wrong; here is the output
> 
> [root at sojourn root]# rpm2cpio
> /var/spool/up2date/sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd /etc/mail/
> sendmail.mc
> 4574 blocks
> cpio: premature end of archive
> [root at sojourn root]#

Please do not top-post!

$ rpm2cpio sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm | cpio -t | grep sendmail.mc
4574 blocks
./etc/mail/sendmail.mc

rpm2cpio sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd
./etc/mail/sendmail.mc

You did leave off the . in front of the path. The last command will
create the full path in the current directory. So the sendmail.mc is
after processing in $pwd/etc/mail/.

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