.deb vs .rpm differences?

Posted Nov 9, 2018 16:07 UTC (Fri) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)
In reply to: .deb vs .rpm differences? by rweikusat2
Parent article: Limiting the power of package installation in Debian

That's basically the same with RPMs (except it is cpio and not tar format, and you need and have a special tool rpm2cpio(8) instead of ar(1) for unpacking the package itself).