On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > >>> But, isn't --excludepath handles files? Also, after finding > --excludepath only, I looked for --includepath. > > Easiest way to extract some files is likely to use cpio(1) options. > > E.g. > rpm2cpio somepackage.rpm | cpio -dim > will extract all files. > >>> Is this extraction can be specified as part of rpm installation? If it > is not then it will be of less use for current functionality we are looking > for, as we want to query rpmdb for various information about installed > packages. > > hth > > 73 de Jeff > > I am aware of --excludepath but the list can become huge in future. > > > > Thanks, > > Rajul > > ______________________________________________________________________ > RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org > User Communication List [email protected] >
