July 2007
RPMs can be unpacked in the current directory using the command:
rpm2cpio package.rpm
|cpio -idmv --no-absolute-filenames
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With some rpm packages, this fails, due to a new RPM format.
Until cpio automatically detects this, there is a workaround (see the Debian bugtracker):
rpm2cpio |
If you also want the pre- and post-install scripts and the like: rpm -qp --scripts package.rpm > TheScripts