Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> Its been a while, but if I remember correctly, RPMs are in cpio format.
$ cpio -idv -F gnocatan-client-0.6.1-2.alpha.rpm
cpio: warning: skipped 61098 bytes of junk
cpio: warning: archive header has reverse byte-order
cpio: [binary garbage output snipped]: unknown file type
cpio: premature end of file
... apparently not...
RPMs are in fact based on the cpio format, but I think they stick their own
header on the front of the file -- the only way I've ever seen cpio handle the
contents of an RPM is after passing the RPM through the rpm2cpio utility.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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