On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:39 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:Hi All, How do you do a rpmbuild -ta tar_ball when the source is not a tar ball and the directory structure exists on the web? (The directory is everything that would be in the tar ball.)
On 09/23/2013 07:51 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
If you mean a github repository with a package that has a workable ".spec" file, you can download a ".zip" file from github.com <http://github.com>, and rpmbuild deals with those just fine. If the source is a few files, you can replace the '%setup" scripting with some simplified ocmmands in a .spec file to copy in and deploy the relevant components. Or, you can make a git checkout or Subversion checkout of a particular tag, or referenced revision level, check that out, put it in a tarball, and build from *THAT*.
Hi Nico, This is the actual directory. http://svn.code.sf.net/p/rdesktop/code/rdesktop/trunk/ If I were to wget it and tar it, I could run the "rpmbuild -ta tar_ball" command on it. But, for the fun/challenge of it, I wanted to do it directly from the web. Now I know that you can insert web addresses into rpmbuild rpmbuild -ta http://some_tar_bal_on_the_web But, I wanted to do it directly to a directory tree. -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
