[101797] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Selection Part of a Package? was Re[2]: Red Hat Sucks?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred W. Noltie Jr.)
Sun Nov 29 14:00:26 1998
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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:00:40 -0600 (CST)
From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <criterion-consulting@usinternet.com>
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On 29-Nov-98 Lane Lester spluttered:
# Jan Carlson said:
# > If you're missing a library, you could rpm -Uvh *devel*.rpm
# > from the rh cd. Is overkill, but ok if you have lots of disk.
#
# Is it possible to extract just part of a package?
#
# Lane
I've never actually tried it, but you can probably do this with
Midnight Commander. If you hit <enter> on an rpm file, it will show you
the contents of the file. I suspect that you can use that to copy a
file out of the rpm into the other pane of mc. It appears to treat an
rpm file just like a file system.
Of course, this is different from using rpm to install/upgrade a
package, so you won't get any rpm benefits from doing it. But I imagine
it can be useful.
Fred
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