[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Files generated by rpm 6.0.x can't be opened with libarchive (Issue #4078)

[Panu Matilainen]

pmatilai left a comment (rpm-software-management/rpm#4078)

The "new" rpm payload format, used for packages with files over >= 4GB since rpm 4.12 and now by default in v6 format, does not have sufficient data to be used as a standalone archive, using it requires parsing the file info from the rpm header.

This is what `rpm2archive` is for. There's also an API (C and Python) for reading the payload, if one can link to librpm to use it. I can't speak for libarchive developers but I seriously doubt that would be acceptable for them.

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