Quoting Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:33:51 +0530, Devdas Bhagat
<devdas-B/gC27/pXbteH41UXmfQsti2O/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
On 28/02/07 10:05 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
snip>
chmod, ar and tar. rpm's need a special tool. Now, why is this
important at all? Well, think of a classified environment, where
you do not want to rely on the packaged tool to help you with
forensics; but you have a trusted solaris box.
A unix system without cpio? RPM is essentially cpio with a specified
header format.
Actually, no: it is a modified cpio. The implementation is
pretty close, but it has some behaviors which are more to RPM's
liking. If you take a plain old cpio from Solaris/Aix/HPUX et al
you'll find that you can't really inspect/create rpm files.
inspect and extract yes, create not too easily..
Which is why we have rpm2cpio package, it converts the rpm to
standard cpio format. If it was a plain old cpio, you would not need
rpm2cpio.
i was under a similar impression, but it ain't true.. see
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch-extra-packaging-tools.html for an example of shell and perl based rpm2cpio to remove the headers and other packaging
information.
- dhawal
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