Tom Brown wrote: > > >"rpm2cpio file.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories" will unpack the rpm to > >the directory you are momentarily in. > > thanks for this it was a great help - Is it possible to modify the files > within the rpm and then just 'tar' it back up again or some other such > like to repackage it? I need to change something within an rpm but i > don't have the spec files etc. Don't you have the src.rpm? There's alien, but that really sucks, as you cannot really put scripts into the rpm. Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra at br-online.de | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060808/988dc6a9/attachment-0005.sig>