[Rpm-maint] Large file support and rpm2archive

[Kamil Dudka]

On Monday 29 April 2013 10:43:18 Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> On 29 April 2013 09:42, Florian Festi <ffesti at redhat.com> wrote:
> > The payload can now be accessed via the rpmfi. Also hardlink calculation
> > moved to the rpmfi.
> >
> > With this in place it is very easy to write an simple rpm extractor.
> > With the help of libarchive I started a little tool "rpm2archive" that
> > right now converts the rpm into a tar archive. With a little more love
> > it should be able to create other formats, too.
> 
> as we already have rpm2cpio, why not name this one rpm2tar?

rpm2tar already exists.  The utility is provided by the rpm2targz package:

http://pkgs.org/fedora-17/rpm-sphere-i586/rpm2targz-9.0.0.4g-5.2.i686.rpm.html

Kamil