In some very successful attempt to waste some time I run 'make rpmdist'
and now have a few questions (apart from the obvoius 'Is it really
supposed to fail?' and possibly 'Why?')
1. Why contain 3781 out of 7528 file names in the .tar.gz the pattern
'/.svn/'? Is it really necessary to pack the whole svn text-base
on top of the 'real' files?
2. Why is that process 'pack sources, unpack, compile, break, retry'
used instead of 'compile until succeeded, pack interesting
stuff only'? Please indicate your answer below:
[ ] Because it was easy to implement on top of the 'dist:' target.
[ ] Because it is the way we like it (i.e. extensive usability
studies showed that this is the way that hurt most without
any visible gain).
[ ] For some undisclosed technical reason that I will never be told
about.
Of course I am asking to gain some secret knowledge for my "Project At
Work" (tm). LyX takes around four minutes to inform me that it can't
find qmake when running 'make rpmdist' (which, of course, is found by an
ordinary 'make'). OTOH, my PaW(tm) happens to build .rpms in half a
minute or so, so I am obviously doing something wrong there. Building
.rpms is suppopsed to hurt, isn't it?
Andre'
