On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 17:51 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:12 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > >>>>> "PH" == Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > PH> Try fedora-extract from fedora-rpmdevtools. > > > > At least for extracting RPMs, it doesn't seem much different from > > rpm2cpio|cpio -mumble, or am I missing something? > > > > Even if it just does that, I'd probably use it just so I don't have to > > read the cpio manpage again. > > That's why I use it :-) Another reason to use it instead of rpm2cpio | cpio is that it extracts into a subdir instead of dumping stuff into $PWD. Of course, whether that's actually desirable depends on the case. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
