On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:21 AM, Rajul Bhavsar <rajulbhavsar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does rpm5 provides selective installation of files that begins with a certain path?
> e.g. I want to install files beginning with /usr/lib. I am not able to find option for this functionality.
> 

RPM doesn’t provide —include path because the goal is to manage
packages, not files.

Easiest way to extract some files is likely to use cpio(1) options.

E.g.
	rpm2cpio somepackage.rpm | cpio -dim
will extract all files.

hth

73 de Jeff
> I am aware of --excludepath but the list can become huge in future. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Rajul