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 [AT] redhat.com>