On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Jeremy McNicoll wrote:
> Is there a way to take a existing RPM and group together all the files
> that belong to it into a tar? What I mean is that I have an rpm and I
> changes to the files inside it, can I take the files that the RPM
> contains with path etc and send to tar to get the necessary files for
> me?
>
> So for example I have a rpm called foo.rpm it contains /etc/blah.txt, I
> went and changed /etc/blah.txt now I want to tar it up so that I can
> make a new rpm with the changes..
>
> I want to take all the files that are in foo.rpm from my current version
> and make a new rpm called foo2.rpm.
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
You'll now have a tree of files which you can use as the basis of your
new tarball.
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