Source RPM

Allen, Jack Jack.Allen at mckesson.com
Thu Mar 5 01:38:38 UTC 2009


Hello: 
        I am trying to track down what I think is a bug in the login
program and I want to look at the source. I have determined that
/bin/login is provided by util-linux-XXXXXXXXXXX. So I have found the CD
that contains util-linux-XXXXXXXX.src.rpm, but I don't know the exact
options to rpm to see what's in the rpm file and to extract the files I
want to look at. I would rather extract the file relative to some
directory I am in, not to /usr/src/redhat/*.

        I have read the man page on rpm and tried a few things, but do
not seem to be able to do what I want. 

        So can some one provide me with the proper options to use? 

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Thanks: 
Jack Allen 




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