NAME

rpm2archive - 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.

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>