[ale] RPM PITA: how to extract files without installing the rpm

[Ray Knight]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 03:13, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Keith Hopkins wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >   How do you extract individual files from an rpm file, without installing the rpm?
> > 
> >   The thing is, I have the latest mysql rpm files from mysql, but they don't include the /etc/init.d/mysql and /etc/logrotate.d/mysql files that are included in the mysql rpms that come with my distro.  So, I want to rip those two files our of the distro rpms.  I looked at the --root option of rpm, but it requires setting up a fake root complete with an rpm database.
> > 
> >   Any ideas?  alien? rpm2pkg?
> > 
> 
> Hey, this works...  :-)
> 
> cd to empty directory
> rpm2cpio file_to_extract_from.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories [filename_to_extract]
> 
> -- 
> Lost in Tokyo,
>   Keith
> 

Midnight Commander (mc) is also good for extracting individual files
from rpms, debs, zip, and tgz files.

Ray


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