Taking back up of an installed rpm

psandeepnair1985 · 04-07-2007, 11:00 PM

Friends,

I tried to take a backup of an installed rpm using the command rpm -i --repackage packagename. This created an rpm called packagename.rpm in /var/spool/repackage directory.
But when i tried later to reinstall from this backed up rpm it was not installing and was giving errors like MD5 checksum error?
Can any body provide me any way to install the backed up rpm in the system.

hob · 04-08-2007, 04:56 AM

Packages are just files, and you can back them up by making additional copies. On Debian and Ubuntu a copy of every installed package is kept in /var/cache/apt/archives/. The yum package manager on Fedora and RHEL 5 also keeps copies if you change as setting.

berbae · 04-08-2007, 08:15 AM

If you want to reinstall a package made by the --repackage option use these options :

Quote:

cd /var/spool/repackage
rpm -Uvh --nodigest --nosignature --oldpackage PACKAGE_FILE

because the repackaging doesn't include digest and signature in the PACKAGE_FILE.