Re: FHS, macros, and Pinstripe

[Derald Metzger <dmetz imagelinks com>]

> Subject: Re: FHS, macros, and Pinstripe
>...
> Circa 2000-Sep-01 15:31:28 -0700 dixit Kenneth Porter:
>
> : Speaking of installing just to read documentation, is there an RPM
> : switch to just install the %doc files? (I had the misfortune the other
> : day of installing a Windows app that complained that it couldn't be
> : installed due to a DLL incompatibility, and it told me to check the
> : readme for a workaround. Of course, the readme isn't available until
> : the program is installed! Fortunately I discovered a support newsgroup
> : for the product that had an answer.)
>
> Unfortunately, the command is somewhat more complicated than a switch:
>
>   cd /tmp
>   mkdir NAME-V.VV-R
>   cd NAME-V.VV-R
>   rpm2cpio NAME-V.VV-R.ARCH.rpm |cpio -idmv \
>     `rpm -qdp NAME-V.VV-R.ARCH.rpm |sed -e 's,^/,,'`
>
> This should extract all files tagged with '%doc' (which, also
> unfortunately, may not be all the documentation files; some man pages
> aren't automatically tagged with %doc).
>
> -- 
> jim knoble | jmknoble@jmknoble.cx | http://www.jmknoble.cx/
>

What would this do for you ?

  rpm -i --root <dir> --dbpath <dir> *

Derald
dmetz@remotesensing.org