On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Erik Troan wrote: > > RPM is fine -- it doesn't follow symlinks on extraction. > > I can't seem to find an option for rpm to extract the files in a > package in a specific location.. does rpm have that or is one > forced to use rpm2cpio bla.rpm | cpio --extract, and if so does > cpio follow symlinks on extraction?
Oh, I mislead you a bit. RPM can't do this now, but if we added it for the LSB (w/ is easy enough to do), it wouldn't follow symlinks on extraction. I haven't a clue of cpio does -- RPM doesn't use it anywhere (and wouldn't use tar either). Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
