Changing CentOS in mid-stream
Changing CentOS in mid-stream
Posted Dec 29, 2020 16:06 UTC (Tue) by jwilk (subscriber, #63328)In reply to: Changing CentOS in mid-stream by amacater
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It's ar, not cpio: https://manpages.debian.org/deb.5
Posted Dec 30, 2020 18:23 UTC (Wed)
by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
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RPM packages are basically cpio archives with a header attached in front. There's an rpm2cpio program that will remove the header so the rest can be fed to cpio.
Changing CentOS in mid-stream