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  ar‐
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16       If a '-' argument is given, an rpm stream is read from standard in.
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18       If  standard  out  is connected to a terminal, the output is written to
19       tar files with a ".tgz" suffix, gzip compressed by default.
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21       In opposite to rpm2cpio rpm2archive also works with RPM  packages  con‐
22       taining files greater than 4GB which are not supported by cpio.  Unless
23       rpm2cpio rpm2archive needs a working rpm installation which limits  its
24       usefulness for some disaster recovery scenarios.
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OPTIONS

27       -n, --nocompression
28              Generate  uncompressed  tar archive and use ".tar" as postfix of
29              the file name.
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EXAMPLES

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

37       rpm2cpio(8), rpm(8)
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AUTHOR

40              Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com>
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44                                27 January 2020                 RPM2ARCHIVE(8)