On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: > 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). i see nothing to suggest that rpm2cpio invokes rpm2cpio.sh for that purpose, can anyone else weigh in here? rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
