Re: How can i use rpm to retrive a specific file from a package?

[Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:26:21 -0800, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:

> > ail.mc[root@sojourn root]# rpm2cpio
> > /var/spool/up2date/sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd
> > ./etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> > 4574 blocks
> > cpio: premature end of archive
> > [root@sojourn root]#
> 
> Check if your rpm is good. It might be incomplete or corrupt.
> md5sum sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm
> 1787392cd6455978ba0181726d89842b  sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm
> ls -l sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1018439 Oct 29 13:39 
> sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm

Better:  rpm -K sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm
Or:      rpm -Kv sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm

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