* Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-Jan-2004 00:20]: > > > I want to recover the sendmail.mc file from the sendmail package. How can > > > I get rpm to just give me that one file. Thanks in advance > > > > cpio2rpm sendmail.rpm | cpio -t --> lists contents, maybe with path > > I think you meant: > > rpm2cpio sendmail.rpm | cpio -t > > > cpio2rpm sendmail.rpm | cpio -ivd FILE > > Again: > > rpm2cpio sendmail.rpm | cpio -ivd FILE One could also use Midnight Commander (/usr/bin/mc) to explore and copy files from RPM packages. Yet another way would be to create an alternative rpm database setup for such purposes. This can be achieved with using some directory as a root (e.g.: /tmp/restore/) and seting up RPM database there (rpm --initdb --dbpath /tmp/restore/var/lib/rpm). Packages could be installed there with --force and --nodeps options. I haven't tried this approach, but it should be easy accroding to the manual. :) TIMTOWTDI. -- Leonid Mamtchenkov. http://www.leonid.maks.net BOFH: Feature was not beta tested
