screwed up rpm - how do I recover

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:27:07AM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> Some years ago I wrote myself such extractor in literally few lines
> of perl.  I am afraid that I do not know now where I stuck it if it
> is still around.  I have seen also something like that done in bash.
> Not very difficult.

You can also boot the CD image in rescue mode and use the rpm on there
with "--root" to rescue yourself.