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 files.  By default they are gzip com‐
       pressed and saved with postfix ".tgz".

       If '-' is given as argument, an rpm stream is read from standard in and written to standard out.

       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 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)