On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:54, Garrick Staples wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:40:52PM -0400, Jeremy Katz alleged: > 5) I want to install the rpm with a different root. Amazingly, yum has support to do this for you ;-) --installroot=/path/to/root > 6) I want to grab a single file out of the rpm. Then you don't want to install it, you want to download it. wget is a lovely thing ;-) Doing this in yum buys you nothing (except extra code in yum) > 7) I want to inspect the scripts and possibly install it with --noscripts. Ditto. Package installers install packages, downloading is mostly a side effect. Cheers, Jeremy