[Fedora-packaging] Re: Usage of {_libdir} or {_lib} in noarch packages

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Sat Dec 20 19:46:44 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 16:57 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Isn't the norach equivalent of _libdir _datadir? Or phrased in another
> way: Shouldn't a noach package avoid both lib and lib64? I think we
> even have rules already set for this.
> 
> I don't quite agree that rpm should start changing _libdir to point
> to _datadir, but the packagers should probably patch up the packages
> to use _datadir instead of _libdir if the package is indeed noarch.

What about noarch python modules which live
in /usr/lib/python(ver)/site-packages/ ?  Perl in /usr/lib/perl(ver)/ ?
So on, and so forth.

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Jesse Keating
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