Rpm2tgz

 #!/bin/sh
 # this script converts an rpm into a plain tarball
 mkdir $$.cpio
 rpm2cpio $@ > $$.cpio/foo
 cd $$.cpio
 cpio -i -m -d < foo
 rm -f foo
 find . -type d -perm 700 -exec chmod 755 {} \;
 tar cvzf ../`basename $@ .rpm`.tar.gz .
 cd ../
 rm -rf $$.cpio