-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wesley J Landaker wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2003 5:35 pm, Pascal wrote: > >># urpmsave --dir ~/rpmsavedir myrpmname >>(before updating glibc and crashing all the system :) ) >>creates a tgz of all files installed by the rpm in the specify >>directory so that u can restore them in case of emergency > > > This would be handy if it would have options for restoring backed up > rpms made in this fashion and handled doing smart things with the urpm > database. > > A simple implementation isn't too hard, though: > > #!/bin/sh > rpm -ql myrpmname | xargs tar cvfj ~/rpmsavedir/myrpmname.tar.bz2 >
No need. 'rpm --repackage' works on upgrade, erase and (apparently) intall. Having urpmi support this would be cool ... Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+dvTyrJK6UGDSBKcRAq43AJ0S2JD+T3KluUoHoKwn9H2Mo3DDewCggWb4 lqGbpGRDd4FsFdkCmR3Bqhg= =zyv3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
