On 28/02/07 12:30 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 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. > No, RPM is cpio encapsulated in packaging headers. If you remove the headers, you are left with plain old cpio files.
> 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. > rpm2cpio understands the RPM headers. As long as you know the packaging header length, you can simply use dd to extract the cpio file out. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
