On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:29:07PM -0700, Klingaman, Aaron L alleged: > > > > 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) > > > > You want to look into rpm2cpio to get a file out of an rpm without > installing it: > > rpm2cpio an-rpm.rpm > an-rpm.cpio > cpio -ivd < an-rpm.cpio I know about rpm2cpio... but that assumes you've downloaded the rpm first. The point of the conversation was regarding reasons why should or shouldn't download rpms.
