Inspecting/unpacking a Linux rpm file on Mac OS X
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/18
You need this statement to unpack an rpm file on Mac OS X without having rpm installed:
rpm2cpio ##filename.rpm## | cpio -idmv
This will make rpm2cpio unpack the rpm file in the current directory using these cpio options:
- i – use the rpm2cpoio as unput
- d – created directories when needed
- m – set modification timestamps from the archive
- v – verbose filenames to
stderr
cpio is already part of the Mac OS X system.
You can get rpm2cpio through homebrew by typing brew install rpm2cpio which will likely also download he xz dependency.
–jeroen
via: rhel – Open a RPM on a Mac? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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