[lug] rpm's and tarball

[Sean Reifschneider]

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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