Extract, but not install rpm
Paul
fedora at barley.vel.net
Mon Jan 23 17:22:32 UTC 2006
J. K. Cliburn wrote:
> For the benefit of those who might hit upon this thread while
> searching, the answer to my question was thus.
>
> # rpm2cpio kernel-2.6.15-1.1824_FC4.src.rpm > kernel.cpio
> # cpio -iv < kernel.cpio
> # bunzip2 linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2
> # tar -xvf linux-2.6.15.tar
>
> This was exactly what I wanted. Thanks again Rex.
>
rpm2cpio kernel-2.6.15-1.1824_FC4.src.rpm | cpio -idv
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