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.TH "RPM2ARCHIVE" "8" "27 January 2020" "" ""
.SH NAME
rpm2archive \- Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM)
package.
.SH SYNOPSIS
\f[B]rpm2archive\f[R] \f[B]{\-n|\-\-nocompression}\f[R]
\f[B]{\-f|\-\-format=pax|cpio}\f[R] \f[I]FILES\f[R]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\f[B]rpm2archive\f[R] converts the .rpm files specified as arguments to
tar archives on standard out.
.PP
If a \[aq]\-\[aq] argument is given, an rpm stream is read from standard
in.
.PP
If standard out is connected to a terminal, the output is written to tar
files with a \[dq].tgz\[dq] suffix, \f[B]gzip\f[R](1) compressed by
default.
.PP
In opposite to \f[B]rpm2cpio\f[R] \f[B]rpm2archive\f[R] also works with
RPM packages containing files greater than 4GB which are not supported
by \f[B]cpio\f[R].
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\f[B]\-n, \-\-nocompression\f[R]
Generate uncompressed tar archive and use \[dq].tar\[dq] as postfix of
the file name.
.TP
\f[B]\-f, \-\-format=pax|cpio\f[R]
Generate archive in specified format: \f[B]pax\f[R] (the default format)
or \f[B]cpio\f[R].
Note that the cpio format cannot host files over 4GB in size and is only
supported here for backwards compatibility.
.SH EXAMPLES
.PD 0
.P
.PD
\f[B]\f[BI]rpm2archive glint\-1.0\-1.i386.rpm | tar \-xvz\f[B]\f[R]
.PD 0
.P
.PD
\f[B]\f[BI]rpm2archive glint\-1.0\-1.i386.rpm ; tar \-xvz
glint\-1.0\-1.i386.rpm.tgz\f[B]\f[R]
.PD 0
.P
.PD
\f[B]\f[BI]cat glint\-1.0\-1.i386.rpm | rpm2archive \- | tar
\-tvz\f[B]\f[R]
.SH SEE ALSO
\f[B]rpm2cpio\f[R](8), \f[B]rpm\f[R](8)
.SH AUTHOR
.IP
.EX
Florian Festi <ffesti\[at]redhat.com>
.EE