On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:15 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com>wrote:
> >>> Hi Nico, > > This is the actual directory. > > > http://svn.code.sf.net/p/**rdesktop/code/rdesktop/trunk/<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. > I think you need to look at how SRPM works to understand that no, it ain't gonna work. SRPM grabs a flat list of files and builds from them. rpmbuild -ta is a hook into SRPM, to extract a .spec file from a tarball and treat the tarball as one of the *already labeled sources* inside the discoverd .spec file. To do what you're asking for, you'd need to have a designated .spec file in the public directory that already knows how to extract the rest of the directory form the web, and pull and run "rumbuild -ba" on that .spec file. Doable, but fairly weird, and pulling source code from the web for RPM compilation without packaging into the SRPM itself is a major security problem, and most repositories refuse to carry such code. There are a very few "nosrc.rpm" packages out there where you need a separate license to download the tarball: JPackage used to do this for Sun's Java packages, but it was a real pain.
