[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Fix rpm2archive to behave like rpm2cpio (by default) (Issue #2208)

[Panu Matilainen]

rpm2cpio outputs to stdout, which makes it natural and efficient to use for piping: 'rpm2cpio foo.rpm|cpio -idv'. rpm2archive however behaves very differently by silently creating a .tgz in the current directory. This breaks the rule of least surprise really, especially given the long-standing behavior of rpm2cpio.

This causes head-scratching from users (me included), inefficient piping because you then need to use 'cat foo.rpm|rpm2archive|tar x' instead of 'rpm2archive foo.rpm|tar x', and it means it cannot replace the aging rpm2cpio which can't handle large files. Once the behavior is made close enough, we can just 'rm rpm2cpio.c' and symlink it to rpm2archive instead.

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