Possible to extract an rpm out from a server for use on another server?

[sunhux G]

Any chance of restoring back as I've taken a tar backup
of /opt  /usr  &  /var before doing the patch.

I know, I shd have taken a dump or cpio



On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:02 PM, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I've just installed an rpm ( VMWare-esx-vmx-3.5.0-158869.i386.rpm )
> and this caused the entire ESX/VMWare to panic/crash whenever a
> VM in this VMWare is started.
>
> I've just done "rpm -e --nodeps -allmatches VMware-esx-vms-3.5.-158869)
> and would like to put back the old rpm 64607 :
>
>    VMWare-esx-3.5.0-64607
>
>
> However, I could not find 64607 from anywhere (requires a code), so I'll
> need to extract this 64607 rpm from my other ESX servers : is this possible
> & what's the command.
>
> If it's not possible to build the 64607 rpm from an existing ESX which has
> not been patched yet, appreciate if someone can point me to where I could
> download it
>
>
> Tks
> U
>