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Re: Getting one file from an package
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:
> Sinse I don't use a distribution that uses rpm, is there anyway to find
> if rpm format uses the tar or ar archiver?
An RPM is a CPIO archive with "syntactic sugar". There is an rpm2cpio
utility that is a standard part of the RPM software.
> The following is from RPM-HOWTO.txt:
>
> 3.2. RPM Requirements
Check the date on the HOWTO. If I recall, RPM *used* to be written in
Perl, but isn't anymore. I believe it's written in C, and its source code
is readily available.
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