Extract single file from SRPM?

turian_at_gmail.com
Date: 05/27/05

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    Date: 26 May 2005 16:12:55 -0700

    How can I extract a single file from an SRPM?

    Detailed story follows:

    I am trying to install source RPM bprof-2.0beta-1.src.rpm from
    http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/src/bprof-2.0beta-1.src.html
    (Unfortunately, the binary has an archaic library dependency that I
    cannot resolve.)

    However, I get the following error message:

    # rpm -Uvh bprof-2.0beta-1.src.rpm
       1:bprof ###########################################
    [100%]
    error: unpacking of archive failed on file bprof-2.0beta-1.spec: cpio:
    Archive file not in header

    Now, the thing is, I don't need the .spec file.
    I only want the .patch file:

    # rpm -qpl bprof-2.0beta-1.src.rpm
    bprof-2.0.patch
    bprof-2.0beta.tar.gz
    bprof-2.0beta-1.spec

    So how can I extract just the single .patch file? Alternately, how can
    I force RPM extraction? (I tried --force, but no luck.)

    Thanks!

        Joseph

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