how to get back installed rpm

bkcreddy17 · 02-13-2009, 02:23 AM

Hi,
We use

Code:

rpm -ivh foo.rpm

to install rpm. And can check installed locations by

Code:

rpm -ql foo

. how to get back original rpm(foo.rpm)? Is it possible?

alan_ri · 02-13-2009, 02:27 AM

What do you mean by "get back"?

bkcreddy17 · 02-13-2009, 02:33 AM

yeh, suppose if i down load an httpd.rpm and i will install in to my machine. after installation i will delete the downloaded httpd.rpm. now i dont have internet connection. how to get httpd.rpm from my system which was installed?

unSpawn · 02-13-2009, 02:50 AM

You could try and rebuild the RPM from the information in the RPMDB and what's in the filesystem. The result may (or may not) work but should not be mistaken for or shared as an official RPM package to be installed elsewhere. Search for 'rpmrebuild'.

alan_ri · 02-13-2009, 03:14 AM

Yeh,you could run;

Code:

debugfs /dir/where the file was

then list the files that were deleted with;

Code:

lsdel

and try to recover it with the;

Code:

dump filename

theYinYeti · 02-13-2009, 04:22 AM

I suppose a clever script using chroot, checkinstall, cp, ldd and rpm would do the trick, except you wouldn't get back install/removal scripts.

Yves.

Valery Reznic · 02-14-2009, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bkcreddy17

Hi,
We use

Code:

rpm -ivh foo.rpm

to install rpm. And can check installed locations by

Code:

rpm -ql foo

. how to get back original rpm(foo.rpm)? Is it possible?

Use rpmrebuild
http://rpmrebuild.sf.net