RPM2ARCHIVE(8) RPM2ARCHIVE(8)
NAME
rpm2archive - Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) pack-
age.
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 con-
taining 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
SEE ALSO
rpm2cpio(8) rpm(8)
AUTHOR
Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>
27 January 2020 RPM2ARCHIVE(8)
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