Cracking Open an RPM

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004, James McDonald wrote:
>Leon Goldstein wrote:
>
>>How does one disassemble an RPM?  I want to extract some files from a 
>>SuSE RPM without installing them.
>>My project is trying to resurrect WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux, 
>>which dies when glibc 2.3.2 is installed.
>>I want to put the older compatible glibc in a system with glibc 2.3.2 
>>and set the environment variable for the WPO2KL
>>start up script to load the older lib.
>>
>>With Debian, ar -x will do the trick, but this does not seem to work 
>>in SuSE.
>>
>what about using the rpm --root /tmp/ -ivh package.rpm to shift the 
>install and then grab the files you need?

That may work, but I've never tried it.  I build a lot of RPMS, mostly
under the OpenPKG package management system for the last year or so, so I'm
much more inclined to add the necessary patches, and rebuild the RPM than
to pull out the individual pieces.

Bill
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