On 01/31/2013 11:05 AM, Connie Sieh wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> On 01/31/2013 11:36 AM, John Doe wrote: >>> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>>> I want to get the original version of /etc/clamd.d/amavis.conf from the >>>> amavisd-new rpm to get the defaults to submit a bug report. I could not >>>> figure out how to do this, so I did a reinstall, but it did not replace >>>> this file (whatprovides says it comes from this rpm). >>>> Is there a way to extract just the one file, and better yet, place it >>>> elsewhere than its regular destination? >>> You could also just have renamed your conf file temporarily, >>> reinstalled, moved the default conf file and renamed back >>> your conf file... >> OK. I am set for what I needed. I went to the repo via http and >> downloaded the rpm. I then used archive manager via nautilus to get to >> the file(s) I needed. Now to write up the bug report. Minor item, but >> it bugs me.... ;) >> > The command line way of getting 1 file out of a rpm is to rpm2cpio. > > rpm2cpio <rpmfilename> > <filename.cpio> > > Now you have a cpio archive which you can use to get files out of. Or: rpm2cpio <rpmfilename> | cpio -idv That will extract all the files to the current directory (create a temporarily directory and cd into it before you start).
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