[wplug] I'm a Linux whimp (need kernel help)

[Poyner, Brandon]

> > What's a standard format?  CPIO is a pretty common archive 
> > format.  I
> > tried and failed to find an RFC for a "standard" for packaging an
> > installable binary and documentation.
> 
> I don't believe that RPM _is_ CPIO -- thus the need for 
> rpm2cpio. I'd be
> quite happy if RPM files could be manipulated directly with cpio.

RPMs contain a compressed cpio archive, but they also have more than the
cpio archive.  Hence why you need rpm2cpio.. to skip over the other
parts and get directly to the cpio archive.  Here's a doc describing in
painful detail the RPM file format. 

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-file-format-rpm-file-format.html
 

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
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