On 09/28/2013 12:06 PM, olli hauer wrote:
> 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.
>

Thank you!


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