On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 01/31/2013 11:36 AM, John Doe wrote: >> 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... > > OK. I am set for what I needed. I went to the repo via http and > downloaded the rpm. I then used archive manager via nautilus to get to > the file(s) I needed. Now to write up the bug report. Minor item, but > it bugs me.... ;) > The command line way of getting 1 file out of a rpm is to rpm2cpio. rpm2cpio <rpmfilename> > <filename.cpio> Now you have a cpio archive which you can use to get files out of. -Connie Sieh