rpm2archive(8) — Linux manual page

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RPM2ARCHIVE(8)             System Manager's Manual            RPM2ARCHIVE(8)

NAME top

       rpm2archive - Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) pack‐
       age.

SYNOPSIS top

       rpm2archive [filename]

DESCRIPTION top

       rpm2archive converts the .rpm files specified as arguments to gz
       compressed tar files with suffix ".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.

       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 top

       rpm2cpio(8) rpm(8)

AUTHOR top

       Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>

COLOPHON top

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Red Hat, Inc.                  27 January 2020                RPM2ARCHIVE(8)