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 files. By default they are gzip compressed and saved with postfix ".tgz".

If '-' is given as argument, an rpm stream is read from standard in and written to standard out.

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 glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm.tgz

cat glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | rpm2archive - | tar -tvz

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