NAME

       rpm2archive - Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package.

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 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.

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)