On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca> wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
>> On 03/10/18 03:38, 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?
>>
>> The best place to ask would be at one of the resources list here
>>
http://rpm.org/community.html
>
> It's just a script (read it!) that does the same job as the
> "rpm2cpio" executable.
yes, i grok that, but given the existence of the rpm2cpio executable,
is there any additional functionality provided by that script? why is
it there? what purpose does it serve above and beyond the rpm2cpio
program?
It must be provided by upstream for people to be able unpack rpms
without installing rpm executables and libraries. I grab it when I
need to do so on non-Fedora, non-RHEL, non-RHEL-clone systems.