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Re: conflicting X11 rpms?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Fri Oct 25 04:58:28 1996

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 04:57:22 -0400
From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, October 24, 1996 19:06:17 -0400
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"KF" == Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu> writes:

KF> So I passed --replacefiles to rpm.  Is there a supported mechanism for 
KF> extracting individual files from an rpm, for inspection, rather than 
KF> taking chances that no one ever builds an rpm that looks like a candidate 
KF> for --replacefiles but really isn't?

Try something like:

rpm2cpio filename.rpm | cpio -idv file/you/want another/file/you/want

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