[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

akuchlin@mems-exchange.org akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:21:26 -0400

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:09:34AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

If it's wanted, I have a cpio reader class somewhere that could be thrown in. Note that (from memory) it only handles some of the many, many different cpio formats... cpio? What's that? An RPM reader, now that would be useful.

cpio is a program like tar, that reads tar files in addition to its own format. Unfortunately there are a bunch of different cpio formats; see the GNU manpage for cpio for a list.

To answer your third sentence, note that the RPM tools include rpm2cpio. Also, Red Hat's rpm module likely includes functions for reading RPM file.

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