On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 11:50 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 09/10/2011 11:35 AM, Craig White wrote: > > OK but I can't figure out how that is going to be helpful to someone who > > wants to use rpm2cpio in order to extract files from rpm files that > > don't actually exist on the live cd. That was the OP's intent/question. > > He can't. The RPMs on the live CD have already been extracted, and > don't exist as an RPM on the liveCD. If you do an "install" from the > live CD, all it does is copy of the disk image to your hard drive. The > best he can do is get a list of the RPMs which *were installed* on the > live CD and extract them from another source (like the install DVD or > possibly from a downloaded RPM (see yumdownloader)). ---- I think I covered that in my original answer which many people have now interjected with irrelevant 'helpful' replies.
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