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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
Parent article: Changing CentOS in mid-stream

> A Debian package can be stripped apart using cpio and tar

It's ar, not cpio: https://manpages.debian.org/deb.5


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Changing CentOS in mid-stream

Posted Dec 30, 2020 18:23 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

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.


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