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
