Create RPM package from ANT script under Windows

Question

I need to create an RPM package from an ANT script that runs on a Windows computer. This package must contain the result classes from the build plus some other, additional resources.

I guess there should be some program somewhere that can be invoked from the command line to create this package.

The reason why I want to do this under windows is that we have a script that builds installers for several different platforms, and everything is already configured for windows so I want to avoid the pain of migrating everything to linux.

Do you know how could this be achieved?

EDIT: I've used a separate Linux machine to do this. I copy all files using the scp task, then execute the rpm command remotely using the ssh task. If this task returns a success code, I copy the resulting rpm back with scp.

Answer 1

Also consider the redline-rpm java library & ant task. https://github.com/craigwblake/redline

Answer 2

A possible solution is to use a pure java RPM Manipulation tool, such as the one described in:

http://jrpm.sourceforge.net/rpmspec/index.html