[CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

Thu Jun 25 03:07:00 UTC 2009
Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com>

Michael A. Peters wrote:

> Are they any utilities, other than installing Fedora 11 and setting the 
> macros described in that thread and rebuilding the src.rpm, to resolve 
> the issue?

Using rpm itself doesn't seem to work (bad checksum), but the rpm2cpio 
utility seems to work OK:

To extract file listing:
rpm2cpio somerpmfile.rpm | cpio -itv

To extract RPM contents to current directory:
rpm2cpio somerpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv

etc.

-Greg