On 03/09/2018 11:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the file > /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh given the existing binary executable > /usr/bin/rpm2cpio? I believe /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh validates that the given file IS an RPM in the first place, then uncompresses it based on what version of RPM was used. IIRC, different versions of RPM used different compression schemes (bzip2, gzip, xz, lzma and zstd to name a few). Not sure that /usr/bin/rpm2cpio can handle the older RPMs. I could be wrong (and probably am). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Careful! Ugly strikes 9 out of 10 people! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
