On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:17, Rob Wellesley wrote: > > > rpm2cpio on the real rpm and the src.rpm might be what you need? > > if i rpm2cpio some_rpm.some_arch.rpm > file.txt > > I get a mountain of "binary gibberish" ? > > The man page states - "extracts cpio archive for any .rpm" Perhaps you want to run the output of rpm2cpio through cpio to get the files out of the cpio archive?
You probably wanted to: rpm2cpio some_rpm.some_arch.rpm | cpio -iv But reading the man page (or better, a unix book, since the man page is pretty sucky) on cpio is probably worth it. Brad -- http://conf.linux.org.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Australia. Birds in Black. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
