rpm2tgz - .rpm is not an RPM

Hi.

I am not able to convert ALT Linux RPM packages to txz packages
http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distribu...lt1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distribu...lt1.x86_64.rpm

# file libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm 
libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm: RPM v3.0 bin i386/x86_64

# file -i libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm 
libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm: application/x-rpm; charset=binary

# rpm2tgz libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.txz
ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?)
ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.txz is not an RPM?)

# for i in `find . -type f | fgrep .rpm | sort`; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -idmv &>/dev/null; done
error: ./libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm: invalid signature tag Archivesize (1046)
error reading header from package

Anybody able to do this?

Thanks.

Hello,

rpm2tgz takes only .rpm files as an argument. You don't need to specify the output file name :

$ rpm2tgz

usr/bin/rpm2tgz:  Converts RPM format to standard GNU tar + GNU zip format.
            (view converted packages with "less", install and remove
            with "installpkg", "removepkg", "pkgtool", or manually
            with "tar")

Usage:      /usr/bin/rpm2tgz [OPTION] <file.rpm>
            (Outputs "file.tgz")

  -s    extract the install scripts to /usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/
          for review.
  -S    extracts the install scripts to be executed on package installation
          (only pre-install and post-install scripts used)
          USE WITH CAUTION! 
  -n    name the output package using the rpm's metadata
  -r    extract what the rpm's "requires" (dependencies)
          as documention to /usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/
  -d    attempt a wellformed slack-desc from the rpm meta data
  -c    reset all directory permissions to 755 and ownership to root:root.

However, the output file name does not respect slackware naming scheme, ie. 'name-version-arch-build.ext' :

$ rpm2tgz libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm simple-scan-40.0-alt1.x86_64.rpm
...
$ ls -1 *.tgz
libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.tgz
simple-scan-40.0-alt1.x86_64.tgz

To fix this, the option -n can be used :

$ rpm2tgz -n libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm simple-scan-40.0-alt1.x86_64.rpm
...
$ ls -1 *.tgz
libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-x86_64-alt1.tgz
simple-scan-40.0-x86_64-alt1.tgz

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Originally Posted by TurboBlaze Hi. I am not able to convert ALT Linux RPM packages to txz packages http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distribu...lt1.x86_64.rpm http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distribu...lt1.x86_64.rpm # file libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm: RPM v3.0 bin i386/x86_64 # file -i libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm: application/x-rpm; charset=binary # rpm2tgz libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.txz ERROR: rpm2cpio failed. (maybe libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm is not an RPM?) ERROR: rpm2cpio failed. (maybe libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.txz is not an RPM?) # for i in `find . -type f | fgrep .rpm | sort`; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -idmv &>/dev/null; done error: ./libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm: invalid signature tag Archivesize (1046) error reading header from package Anybody able to do this? Thanks.

Hi,

rpm2tgz does work for me. As phenixia2003 already wrote you don't want to specify the output file name, however it should still create a tgz file even if you do.

When i tried running your command:

rpm2tgz libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.tgz

(...)

Creating Slackware package:  /home/username/libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.tgz

./
install/
install/doinst.sh
usr/
usr/lib64/
usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/
usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/PackageKitGlib-1.0.typelib
usr/lib64/libpackagekit-glib2.so.18.1.3

Slackware package /home/username/libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.tgz created.

ERROR:  rpm2cpio failed.  (maybe libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.tgz is not an RPM?)

So first it creates a tgz package from rpm, then complains the tgz file is not an rpm as expected.

Try downloading the file again. I can see there is no checksum files on the mirror but try checking the md5sum of the file to see if it is identical to the one I have:

$ md5sum libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm
48c57a7f0e6dbd0ec70cf19beeb6ed35  libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm

The error seems to imply the rpm file is corrupted and not able to be properly extracted. If you redownload the file (and you can check the md5sum against the one provided by alekow), it will likely fix your issue.

BUG!!!
rpm2tgz is not support any packages from ALT Linux Sisyphus and ALT Linux P9.

For example you can search any packages on this web site https://pkgs.org/
and you can't to convert rpm2tgz from ALT Linux reposytorys.

How to fix this?

Thanks.

Can you extract those packages with rpm2cpio? E.g.

rpm2cpio libpackagekit-glib-1.2.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm|cpio -tv

I think it's just a bad rpm. rpm -V got me this:

[root@ambiorix slackbuilds]# rpm -V libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm
warning: libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID ae4ae412: NOKEY
error: libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm: invalid signature tag Archivesize (1046)
error: libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest)

The messages for another random ALT Linux rpm were the same.

Meanwhile, an rpm from Fedora was fine:

[root@ambiorix slackbuilds]# rpm -V AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64.rpm
warning: AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 45719a39: NOKEY
Unsatisfied dependencies for AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64:
        liballeg.so.4.4()(64bit) is needed by AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64
        libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit) is needed by AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64
        libogg.so.0()(64bit) is needed by AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64
        libvorbis.so.0()(64bit) is needed by AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64
        libvorbisfile.so.3()(64bit) is needed by AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64
        rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by AllegroOGG-1.0.3-26.fc34.x86_64
missing   a /usr/lib/.build-id
missing   a /usr/lib/.build-id/a1
missing   a /usr/lib/.build-id/a1/03a7244edcb8418ab31c3d2e96798a118d96d7
missing     /usr/lib64/libAllegroOGG.so.0
missing     /usr/share/doc/AllegroOGG
missing   d /usr/share/doc/AllegroOGG/ALOGG.txt
missing   d /usr/share/doc/AllegroOGG/AUTHORS.txt
missing   d /usr/share/doc/AllegroOGG/COPYING.txt

rpm2tgz managed to make a tgz package out of the Fedora rpm.

# rpm2cpio libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm | cpio -tv
error: libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm: invalid signature tag Archivesize (1046)
error reading header from package
cpio: premature end of archive 

# rpm2cpio leafpad-0.8.18.1-alt4.x86_64.rpm | cpio -tv
error: leafpad-0.8.18.1-alt4.x86_64.rpm: invalid signature tag Archivesize (1046)
error reading header from package
cpio: premature end of archive 

# rpm -V *.rpm
warning: Generating 18 missing index(es), please wait...
error: leafpad-0.8.18.1-alt4.x86_64.rpm: invalid signature tag Archivesize (1046)
error: leafpad-0.8.18.1-alt4.x86_64.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest)
warning: libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID ae4ae412: NOKEY
error: libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm: invalid signature tag Archivesize (1046)
error: libpackagekit-glib-1.2.3-alt3.x86_64.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest)
error: mariadb-bench-10.4.17-alt2.noarch.rpm: invalid signature tag Archivesize (1046)
error: mariadb-bench-10.4.17-alt2.noarch.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest)

With Fedora rpm - all is ok, but with ALT Linux rpm is a very bad story.