NAME

       fragiso - split rpm packages from an iso and reassemble the iso later on

SYNOPSIS

       fragiso make iso fiso
       fragiso list fiso
       fragiso fill [-m] fiso iso

DESCRIPTION

       fragiso  can  be  used to convert an iso file into a fragment file, which is a list describing all of the
       rpms on the iso and a data chunk containing everything but the rpms. It is used by drpmsync when  an  iso
       needs  to  be  transferred.  The  idea  is  that  often  the rpms on the iso are already available on the
       destination host, so it saves bandwidth to first transfer the fragmented iso, copy the locally  available
       rpms, transfer the unavailable rpms and reassemble the iso file.

       fragiso  make  converts  the  iso  into  the  fragment  iso,  fragiso list can be used to extract the rpm
       information. This information consists of the offset and length of all rpms and the lead/signature header
       md5sum plus the header/payload md5sum. To reassemble the iso one has to copy the rpms at the right offset
       into a new file and then use fragiso fill later on to provide all data not contained in the rpms. The  -m
       option tells fragiso to print the resulting md5sum of the iso to stdout.  It can be used for verification
       purposes.

SEE ALSO

       drpmsync(8)

AUTHOR

       Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>

                                                    Mar 2007                                          FRAGISO(8)