Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

[Mike Waychison]

William Park wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:33:58PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:30:08PM -0400, William Park wrote:
>>
>>>I have question about 'rpm' usage.  How do you extract the files into
>>>current directory, without converting .rpm to .tgz?
> 
> ...
> 
>>Why would you want to?  And doesn't rpm have an extract rather than
>>install option?  Or use alien to convert to a tgz.
> 
> 
> Actually, my 'rpm' does not have extract option.  Slackware comes with
> 'rpm2tgz', so I'm using that to convert to tarball.
> 
> 
>>I still can't imagine wanting to do that though.
> 
> 
> How else can you extract '/boot/config-*'?  I need that in order to
> compile the kernel again. :-)
> 

rpm2cpio <rpmfile> | cpio -id --no-absolute-filenames

Mike Waychison
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