On Wed, 9 May 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:32:14PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: >> Its been a while, but if I remember correctly, RPMs are in cpio >> format. > > no there not, they are in a goofed up customized cpio format that > cpio no longer recognizes.
http://www.rpmdp.org/rpmbook/node119.html says RPMs are some data + a gzipped cpio archive. There's a shell script at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/compress/disrpm which finds the start of the gzipped cpio archive and then extracts the contents. Juergen -- Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html Visit the Java 2 Platform on Linux BOF at JavaOne: http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/conf/bofs/1745/0-sf2001.jsp