https://github.com/nbarrientos/archive-rpm

Browse RPM and CPIO archives in Emacs with archive-mode
https://github.com/nbarrientos/archive-rpm

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Browse RPM and CPIO archives in Emacs with archive-mode

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nbarrientos/archive-rpm
• Owner: nbarrientos
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2022-02-19T16:10:20.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-19T23:52:06.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-23T23:40:57.406Z (12 days ago)
• Topics: cpio, emacs, rpm
• Language: Emacs Lisp
• Homepage:
• Size: 39.1 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# archive-rpm

## Description

Browse RPM and CPIO archives in Emacs with archive-mode

Have you ever tried opening a tarball or a zip file in Emacs?  You

will have noticed that it shows you a list of all the files in the

archive, and you can open the individual files.  Then perhaps you

tried opening an RPM file, hoping to see something similar, only to be

faced with a wall of binary data.

This pair of Emacs Lisp modules attempts to remediate that, giving you

the same experience with RPM files as with tarballs and other archive

files.

(Why two modules?  As it turns out, RPM files consist of a bunch of

metadata prepended to a compressed CPIO archive, so it makes sense to

implement handling of CPIO archives, and then do RPMs on top of that.)

## History

In March 2022, [MELPA

switched](https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/7945) to this repository

as source for this package due to the [original

one](https://github.com/legoscia/archive-rpm) not being maintained.

## Installation

To install these modules, type `M-x package-install-file`, and select

the _directory_ containing `archive-rpm.el` and `archive-cpio.el`

(don't select one of the modules themselves!).  After that, any RPM

files you open should display as some metadata plus a file listing.

This package is also available from MELPA so if you have that

repository configured `(package-install "archive-rpm")` should do the

trick.

## Tests

To run the test suite make sure that `rpmbuild` is installed on the

system and run `make test`.