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.

Options

-n, ā€‰--nocompression

Generate uncompressed tar archive and use ".tar" as postfix of the file name.

-f, ā€‰--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.

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

rpm2cpio(8), rpm(8)

Author

Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>

Referenced By

rpm2cpio(8).

27 January 2020