On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Rohitashva Sharma wrote: > Hello All, > > can anybody tell me the format in which rpm2cpio creates the cpio archive? > > can that cpio archive be tested against the --only-verify-crc option > of cpio command? format="$(rpm2cpio rpms/RPMS/i386/gpart-0.1h-3.1.i386.rpm | dd bs=6 count=1 2> /dev/null)" echo format: $format if [ $format = "070701" ]; then echo "cpio, no crc" elif [ $format = "070702" ]; then echo "cpio, crc" else echo "unknown format" fi From my tests, it doesn't include crc info. Note that it isn't important. rpm includes md5/sha1 of all files and the data is usually compressed with gzip/bzip2, that also includes a crc. $ rpm -K rpms/RPMS/i386/gpart-0.1h-3.1.i386.rpm rpms/RPMS/i386/gpart-0.1h-3.1.i386.rpm: sha1 md5 OK -- lfr 0/0
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