How can i use rpm to retrive a specific file from a package?

Fri Jan 9 22:14:35 UTC 2004

Am Fr, den 09.01.2004 schrieb Technical um 23:07:
> I want to recover the sendmail.mc file from the sendmail package.  How can
> I get rpm to just give me that one file.  Thanks in advance

cpio2rpm sendmail.rpm | cpio -t   --> lists contents, maybe with path

cpio2rpm sendmail.rpm | cpio -ivd FILE
extracts the desired file, maybe FILE is with full path, see output with
cpio -t

Alexander


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