On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:21 AM, Rajul Bhavsar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does rpm5 provides selective installation of files that begins with a certain
> path?
> e.g. I want to install files beginning with /usr/lib. I am not able to find
> option for this functionality.
>
RPM doesn’t provide —include path because the goal is to manage
packages, not files.
Easiest way to extract some files is likely to use cpio(1) options.
E.g.
rpm2cpio somepackage.rpm | cpio -dim
will extract all files.
hth
73 de Jeff
> I am aware of --excludepath but the list can become huge in future.
>
> Thanks,
> Rajul
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