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

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Jan 10 03:51:33 UTC 2004


Am Sa, den 10.01.2004 schrieb Technical um 02:56:
> what is top - post?

top-posting is to reply to a posting by just putting the new content at
the top of the message.

A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

> I still get the same problem
> 
> ail.mc[root at sojourn root]# rpm2cpio
> /var/spool/up2date/sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd
> ./etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> 4574 blocks
> cpio: premature end of archive
> [root at sojourn root]#

Your rpm is corrupt. Download it again.

Alexander


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