Re: RPM package creation from already installed files?

[Hiren Patel <patelhn telkom co za>]

the --repackage option of rpm might be helpful to you, i have not tried
it, but it sounds like it might be worth investigating.

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 18:45 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> Is there a way to create an RPM package from an already installed 
> RPM, for which I've lost the package file?  Thanks....
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