On 2013-09-24 05:15, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:39 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]
>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> 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
> 

Don't look at the subversion tree, look via the webinterface
 http://sourceforge.net/p/rdesktop/code/HEAD/tree/rdesktop/trunk/
Here you have the option to download a zip'd snapshot.

-- 
olli