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.TH "RPM2ARCHIVE" "8" "27 January 2020" "" ""
.hy
.SH NAME
.PP
rpm2archive - Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
\f[B]rpm2archive\f[R] \f[B]{-n|--nocompression}\f[R] \f[I]FILES\f[R]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
\f[B]rpm2archive\f[R] converts the .rpm files specified as arguments to
tar archives on standard out.
.PP
If a \[aq]-\[aq] argument is given, an rpm stream is read from standard
in.
.PP
If standard out is connected to a terminal, the output is written to tar
files with a \[dq].tgz\[dq] suffix, gzip compressed by default.
.PP
In opposite to \f[B]rpm2cpio\f[R] \f[B]rpm2archive\f[R] also works with
RPM packages containing files greater than 4GB which are not supported
by cpio.
Unless \f[B]rpm2cpio\f[R] \f[B]rpm2archive\f[R] needs a working rpm
installation which limits its usefulness for some disaster recovery
scenarios.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\f[B]-n, --nocompression\f[R]
Generate uncompressed tar archive and use \[dq].tar\[dq] as postfix of
the file name.
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
.PD 0
.P
.PD
\f[B]\f[BI]rpm2archive glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | tar -xvz\f[B]\f[R]
.PD 0
.P
.PD
\f[B]\f[BI]rpm2archive glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm ; tar -xvz
glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm.tgz\f[B]\f[R]
.PD 0
.P
.PD
\f[B]\f[BI]cat glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | rpm2archive - | tar -tvz\f[B]\f[R]
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
\f[B]rpm2cpio\f[R](8), \f[B]rpm\f[R](8)
.SH AUTHOR
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
Florian Festi <ffesti\[at]redhat.com>
\f[R]
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