On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 09:22 -0600, reg@xxxxxxx wrote: > I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm. > How do I 'rip it apart' ?? > Doing an install doesnt seem to be the answer, It does something, but I > have no idea where the bits and pieces are going. > They are NOT in /usr/src/redhat nor in /root/rpmbuild. > -- > Reg.Clemens > reg@xxxxxxx Hi Reg: You can do the following to see the files (it can be srpm or rpm): $ rpm2cpio file.srpm | cpio -t and to extract the files: $ rpm2cpio file.srpm | cpio -ivd If you install the source rpm file I guess it is extracted into the rpm build tree, that is: ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/ for the spec file ~/rpmbuild/SOUCES/ for the tarball and patches but I'm not sure about this. Hope this helps. Cheers, Germán. -- Germán A. Racca National Institute for Space Research (INPE) São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil http://gracca.tk - http://graccablog.tk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
