On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:01:10PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> What you meant is this:
>
> cd /
> rpm2cpio /path/to/package.rpm |cpio -idu
>
> (or 'cpio -iudv' for 'verbose': with files list)
>
> Problem: This will run over config files rpm is not supposed to change.
>
> Any better idea ?
>
Perhaps cd /tmp rather then cd /? I assume that the proposed cpio
command would extract the files into /tmp or to a sub directory of /tmp.
Of course that would leave quite a lot of work to the admin but
otherwise he would have reinstall the package, wouldn't he?
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