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No surprises there. While just about every other package format out there is some variant of a tar-ball with added meta-data the RPM is a custom binary format.
by digi_owl 10y ago
No surprises there. While just about every other package format out there is some variant of a tar-ball with added meta-data the RPM is a custom binary format.
I know someone did a blog or article on the RPM format internals, but damned if i can find it with a quick search. I just get a whole bunch of Fedora and Red Hat links...
- digi_owl 10y agoGDIt, why didn't i try a HN search in the first place... https://blog.bethselamin.de/posts/argh-pm.html https://blog.bethselamin.de/posts/argh-pm.html seems to be what i was thinking about earlier.