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Re: RH and GNOME



Steve Lamb wrote:
>     Why can't RPMs?  In my discussion on colm about RPM vs. other packaging
> formats they pointed out that RPM is cpio which is on all unix platforms
> just like ar and tar are.  Wow, that was a tongue twister.

RPM is cpio plus a rather complicated binary header in front. It's
impossible to pull control info out of that binary structure w/o specialized
programs. See /usr/doc/rpm/format.gz

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