Extract tree from cpio archive

Question

I have an RPM contaning files in ./var/lib which I need to extract onto my filesystem on a Debian machine. I'm trying to do this:

rpm2cpio myrpm.rpm | cpio -ivd ./var/lib

Nothis is extracted. If I specify the full path to the exact file which I want, I get it, but I need to extract the entire tree.

How can I extract the entire tree (ie: all files within a directory in the RPM) to the local filesystem?

Not sure why the directory argument is not working. This works for me: cd <destdir>; rpm2cpio /path/to/rpm | cpio -idmv — Joshua Lokken
– Joshua Lokken, Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 21:01
1. Have you considered using Debian's alien to do this for you? 2. Does rpm2cpio generate paths starting ./ — Chris Davies
– Chris Davies, Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 22:51

Naftuli Kay · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-30 03:03:27Z

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I was ultimately able to do it using something like this:

rpm2cpio myrpm.rpm | cpio -ivd './var/lib/**/*'

answered Apr 30, 2015 at 3:03

Naftuli Kay

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