After a few minutes, here's a hack. You need yum-utils installed to get yumdownloader. Please don't blame me if this sucks. #!/bin/sh -x DIR=yumlook.$$.$RANDOM PKG=$1 FILE=`pwd`/$1 cd /tmp mkdir $DIR pushd $DIR yumdownloader $PKG # Should only be one file in this directory rpm2cpio $PKG* | cpio --quiet --no-absolute-filenames -idmv 2>&1 $SHELL popd rm -rf /tmp/$DIR For grins, here's another hack that works on local files and needs nothing (save RPM) installed: DIR=rpmlook.$$.$RANDOM FILE=`pwd`/$1 cd /tmp mkdir $DIR pushd /tmp/$DIR rpm2cpio "$FILE" | cpio --quiet --no-absolute-filenames -idmv 2>&1 $SHELL popd rm -rf /tmp/$DIR - J< -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
