rpm2archive - Man Page

Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package.

Synopsis

rpm2archive {-n|--nocompression} {-f|--format=pax|cpio} 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.
-f, --format=pax|cpio: Generate archive in specified format: pax (the default format) or cpio. Note that the cpio format cannot host files over 4GB in size and is only supported here for backwards compatibility.