1RPM2ARCHIVE(8)                                                  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 {-n|--nocompression} FILES
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DESCRIPTION

13       rpm2archive converts the .rpm  files  specified  as  arguments  to  tar
14       files.   By  default  they  are  gzip compressed and saved with postfix
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17       If '-' is given as argument, an rpm stream is read from standard in and
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20       In  opposite  to rpm2cpio rpm2archive also works with RPM packages con‐
21       taining files greater than 4GB which are not supported by cpio.  Unless
22       rpm2cpio  rpm2archive needs a working rpm installation which limits its
23       usefulness for some disaster recovery scenarios.
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OPTIONS

26       -n, --nocompression
27              Generate uncompressed tar archive and use ".tar" as  postfix  of
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EXAMPLES

31       rpm2archive glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm ; tar -xvz glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm.tgz
32       cat glint-1.0-1.i386.rpm | rpm2archive - | tar -tvz
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SEE ALSO

35       rpm2cpio(8) rpm(8)
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AUTHOR

38              Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>
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42                                27 January 2020                 RPM2ARCHIVE(8)