Usage of {_libdir} or {_lib} in noarch packages

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Tue Dec 23 18:24:15 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:46:49AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> With python, if one part of a module is arch specific, but the rest is
> noarch, the entire bundle goes into the arch specific directory, which
> could be /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 depending on the arch.  Python doesn't
> allow parts of a module to be in one path (/usr/share) and the other
> part be in an arch specific path (/usr/lib64).

Indeed, but even fully noarch modules go in /usr/lib instead of 
/usr/share. 

It is fine for mixed arch/noarch to be in %_libdir, but noarch
should be in %_datadir.

--
Pat




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