What is up2date repackaging?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 13, 2003, "Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor at intel.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know what up2date is doing?

It creates (somewhat-broken) RPMs out of the installed files and
database, such that you may be able to rollback the updates even if
you didn't keep the original RPMs.

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