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Re: Doh! I deleted rpm!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H Darrah)
Thu Oct 15 19:18:57 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:18:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: John H Darrah <jhd@giddens.com>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Timothy King wrote:
> I accidently deleted rpm. I thought, no problem, I'll rebuild rpm from
> the sources on my #2 CD. But... the sources are in rpm format! Where
> can I find a tarball of rpm? Is there some way I can extract sources
> from the rpm?
>
Well, if you didn't delete rpm2cpio also, you can
do the following:
rpm2cpio rpm-x.x.x.x.rpm | cpio -ivd
and it will give you the tarball.
If you want to see the contents first do this:
rpm2cpio rpm-x.x.x.x.rpm | cpio -it
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