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

[Aaron Griffin]

On 7/14/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

Check the contrib directory.  I'm pretty sure re-pacman does what you want.