On Fri, 3 May 2002 20:43:57 +1000
"Alan Vink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to do get at some files I desperately need out of RPMs that
> someone has built, what I'd like to do is install them "fully" but to direct
> them at believing that eg. /testrpm/ is the root directory.

rpm -Ivh --root /testrpm package.rpm

you may need to create /testrpm/var/lib and copy /var/lib/rpm to to /testrpm/var/lib

Kevin
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