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