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 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.

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>

                                         27 January 2020                           RPM2ARCHIVE(8)