Mandrake SRPMs on Fedora Core 1

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Tue Jun 1 17:17:57 UTC 2004


Am Di, den 01.06.2004 schrieb William M. Quarles um 18:58:

> There is no corresponding SRPM, nor a binary RPM, for Fedora Core or Red 
> Hat Linux.
> 
> Anyway, the real point of my question is this: does anybody know how to 
> extract files from a binary RPM without using Alien?

> William

rpm2cpio package | cpio -t   --> lists content

rpm2cpio package | cpio -ivd file_of_content    --> extracts the given
file; be aware that you must give the file like it is printed out by
cpio -t, i.e. with leading dot

The documentation is btw. max-rpm on www.rpm.org.

Alexander


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