On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Peter Samuel wrote:
>
> > You can extract the files in an rpm using rpm2cpio. Then you can use
> > that to build a new tarball.
> >
> > cd /var/tmp
> > mkdir foo-1.1
> > cd foo-1.1
> > rpm2cpio foo-1.1.noarch.rpm | cpio -iv
>
> I think you'll find you need the -d option to cpio - "cpio -idv".
Depends on your version of cpio. My tests showed it wasn't necessary
rpm -q rpm cpio
rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
cpio-2.4.2-26
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