[lug] rpm's and tarball

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Tue Jun 19 08:28:18 MDT 2001


Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:12:29PM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> >This is kind of silly, but I am unable to find a way to create a tarball
> >out of a source rpm. I think the "--tarbuild" is probably to create an
> 
> Also, you can get access to the tar file using "rpm2cpio", which outputs
> a cpio-format archive which includes the file contents of the RPM.
> 
> Sean
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It's good to know there is more ways than one to skin an rpm.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com



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