Source RPM

[Chris St. Pierre]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Allen, Jack wrote:

> 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?

In addition to the other two suggestions, you could also use rpm2cpio.
Not a program I use a lot, but the man page should give you adequate
guidance.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University