On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:02 +0100, ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
An RPM package is basically a wrapped-up CPIO archive.
You should probably have (and if not, get it from somewhere) the program rpm2cpio.
Note that the standard binary rpm2cpio needs the rest of the rpm package installed in order to work.
What you want is the perl script available at