[Yum] Feature request(s)

[Garrick Staples]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:29:07PM -0700, Klingaman, Aaron L alleged:
> 
> > > 6) I want to grab a single file out of the rpm.
> > 
> > Then you don't want to install it, you want to download it.  wget is a
> > lovely thing ;-)   Doing this in yum buys you nothing (except 
> > extra code
> > in yum)
> > 
> 
> You want to look into rpm2cpio to get a file out of an rpm without
> installing it:
> 
> rpm2cpio an-rpm.rpm > an-rpm.cpio
> cpio -ivd < an-rpm.cpio

I know about rpm2cpio... but that assumes you've downloaded the rpm
first.  The point of the conversation was regarding reasons why
should or shouldn't download rpms.