On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:44 +0100, 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. > > thanks Almost all opensource RPMS have published SRPMS ... certainly all from CentOS / KBS / RPMForge do. Where did you obtain said RPM. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060808/94e17315/attachment-0005.sig>