[CentOS] How to extract one file from rpm using yum?

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 31 16:36:33 UTC 2013


From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

> I want to get the original version of /etc/clamd.d/amavis.conf from the 
> amavisd-new rpm to get the defaults to submit a bug report.  I could not 
> figure out how to do this, so I did a reinstall, but it did not replace 
> this file (whatprovides says it comes from this rpm).
> Is there a way to extract just the one file, and better yet, place it 
> elsewhere than its regular destination?

You could also just have renamed your conf file temporarily, 
reinstalled, moved the default conf file and renamed back 
your conf file...

JD



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