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

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon Dec 22 12:14:55 UTC 2008


Patrice Dumas wrote, at 12/21/2008 05:31 AM +9:00:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:46:44AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Should be the only 2 exceptions. In my opinion these are wrong but long
> established, and maybe not worth changing, or it is to be seen with
> their maintainers.
> 
> There is a rpmlint warning when there is only noarch content in
> %_libdir, I think this is right.
> 
> --
> Pat

And Ruby always uses /usr/lib/ruby. Another example is /usr/lib/bonobo/servers
(ref: bug 463054)

Mamoru




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