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@redhat.com>

                                                 27 January 2020                                  RPM2ARCHIVE(8)