[Fedora-packaging] Octave package standard

[Toshio Kuratomi]

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Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm currently working with octave upstream to get their new package
> management system in line with Fedora so that we can easily build RPMs
> with it.  I'd like to get a Fedora package standard configured and
> approved at the same time.  I've put a draft on the wiki at:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Octave
> 
> Some further information:
> 
> - Currently octave uses the /usr/libexec tree to install the .oct files.
>  These are really shared libraries.  It does use an arch/api versioned
> directory, e.g.:
> 
> /usr/libexec/octave/packages/java-1.2.1/i386-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v26/
> 
> Some other package files (PKG_ADD/PKG_DEL) get added there too.
> 
This is the only part that needs more clarification to me.  If the .oct
files are really shared libraries it seems that they belong in
%{_libdir}.  libexec is more useful for binaries that shouldn't be
multilib like helper programs that are invoked by other programs on the
system and need to match arch with the invoking program for them to work
correctly.

- -Toshio
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