1RPM2ARCHIVE(8)              System Manager's Manual             RPM2ARCHIVE(8)
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NAME

6       rpm2archive  -  Create tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) pack‐
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SYNOPSIS

10       rpm2archive [filename]
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DESCRIPTION

13       rpm2archive converts the .rpm files specified as arguments to  gz  com‐
14       pressed tar files with suffix ".tgz".
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16       If '-' is given as argument, an rpm stream is read from standard in and
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19       In opposite to rpm2cpio rpm2archive also works with RPM  packages  con‐
20       taining  files greater than 4GB which are not supported by cpio. Unless
21       rpm2cpio rpm2archive needs a working rpm installation which limits  its
22       usefulness for some disaster recovery scenarios.
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24       rpm2archive glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm ; tar -xvz glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm.tgz
25       cat glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | rpm2archive - | tar -tvz
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SEE ALSO

29       rpm2cpio(8) rpm(8)
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AUTHOR

32       Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>
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36Red Hat, Inc.                   27 January 2020                 RPM2ARCHIVE(8)