[pacman-dev] feature request: create .tar.gz package from an installed one

[Xavier]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:25:27PM +0200, ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu wrote:
> Hi!
> In my opinion one of the best thinks in pacman that unlike many other 
> package managers user can undo lots of thinks (see -R group after -S 
> group, -Rs after -S ...). However, user cannot undo a package upgrade, 
> because most sync servers doesn't store old packages. So I think that 
> it would be very useful, if there would be a pacman or makepkg command 
> to create a package from an installed one (or is this implemented?). We 
> could(?) do this from the local db and the installed files. Of course 
> this wouldn't be a "distro" package, because config files can change 
> etc. but this is even better for backup/undo.
> You may say, that this is totally useless, because if a package is 
> installed then there must exist a proper .tar.gz file somewhere.

lol, indeed, that's exactly what I want to say :)