Hi All,

I can open src.rpm files in file-roller and
look at them.  Triva question: what kind of
archive is a src.rpm?  I tried looking at them
with tar, but they are not tarballs.  And,
file-roller is not coughing up any of its
secrets in "properties".

Many thanks,
-T

On 2009-10-13, Todd <todd@invalid.com> wrote:
>
> I can open src.rpm files in file-roller and
> look at them.  Triva question: what kind of
> archive is a src.rpm?  I tried looking at them
> with tar, but they are not tarballs.  And,
> file-roller is not coughing up any of its
> secrets in "properties".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager#Logical_package_format

--keith

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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
<hb0svv$122$1@aioe.org>, Todd wrote:

>I can open src.rpm files in file-roller and
>look at them.  Triva question: what kind of
>archive is a src.rpm?  I tried looking at them
>with tar, but they are not tarballs.  And,
>file-roller is not coughing up any of its
>secrets in "properties".

[compton ~]$ whatis cpio rpm2cpio
cpio         (1)  - copy files to and from archives
rpm2cpio     (8)  - Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) 
                  package
[compton ~]$

I was going to direct you to the RPM-HOWTO, but it doesn't mention
the internal format.  It's a wrapper around a cpio archive.

        Old guy

Moe Trin wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
> <hb0svv$122$1@aioe.org>, Todd wrote:
> 
>> I can open src.rpm files in file-roller and
>> look at them.  Triva question: what kind of
>> archive is a src.rpm?  I tried looking at them
>> with tar, but they are not tarballs.  And,
>> file-roller is not coughing up any of its
>> secrets in "properties".
> 
> [compton ~]$ whatis cpio rpm2cpio
> cpio         (1)  - copy files to and from archives
> rpm2cpio     (8)  - Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) 
>                   package
> [compton ~]$
> 
> I was going to direct you to the RPM-HOWTO, but it doesn't mention
> the internal format.  It's a wrapper around a cpio archive.
> 
>         Old guy


Thank you

Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2009-10-13, Todd <todd@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I can open src.rpm files in file-roller and
>> look at them.  Triva question: what kind of
>> archive is a src.rpm?  I tried looking at them
>> with tar, but they are not tarballs.  And,
>> file-roller is not coughing up any of its
>> secrets in "properties".
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager#Logical_package_format
> 
> --keith
> 

Thank you

Todd <todd@invalid.com> writes:

>Hi All,

>I can open src.rpm files in file-roller and
>look at them.  Triva question: what kind of
>archive is a src.rpm?  I tried looking at them
>with tar, but they are not tarballs.  And,
>file-roller is not coughing up any of its
>secrets in "properties".


It is an rpm. (Redhat package manager) 
It is a collection of source files, with scripts to patch, build and create
installation scripts.


>Many thanks,
>-T