brian davison wrote:
>
> The contents of rpm s are visible (though not editable) in midnight
> commander....... without otherwise unpacking the rpm.
> brian ;})
> **************************************
>
> At 03:06 AM 12/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michael Burger wrote:
> >
> >> It's actually a 2 step process.
> >>
> >> First, you "rpm --rebuild this-program-version.src.rpm"
> >>
> >> This will unpack the source code, and compile it into an i386.rpm,
> >> usually located in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.
> >
> >perhaps i'm overlooking the obvious, but is there an option to
> >just unpack a src.rpm file under /usr/src/redhat if i wanted to
> >poke around the source -- no compiling or installing.
> >
> >rday
rpm -i this-program-version.src.rpm installs it in /usr/src/redhat.
rpm2cpio this-program-version.src.rpm |cpio -ivd unpacks the files.
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