Re: FDW: another rpm tool : rpmrebuild

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:30:54PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> 
> rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has
> already been installed
> I know there is an "repackage" option in recent rpm releases, but it is
> not convenient, as you have to uninstall the package

Just for the record:

	rpm --repackage is an entirely different beastie than rpmrebuild.
	For starters, --repackage puts modified files (with failing MD5
	sums) in the payload, skips missing files entirely, and appends
	a RPMTAG_REMOVETID tag to the header when attempting to recreate
	the original package.

	That means that the recreated package is *NOT* the same as the
	original package, nor will a repackaged package install like
	the original package. Please don't even think about distributing
	packages that were recreated using rpm --repackage.

73 de Jeff

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Jeff Johnson	ARS N3NPQ
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Chapel Hill, NC