[Mageia-dev] %_libexecdir - Re: [5228] revert some duplicated manbo stuff (all identical to default but

Fri Jul 27 16:16:21 CEST 2012

27.07.2012 17:12, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 27/07/12 15:02 did gyre and gimble:
+>> 27.07.2012 16:55, Anssi Hannula skrev:
+>>> 26.07.2012 20:17, root at mageia.org kirjoitti:
+>>>> Revision
+>>>>     5228
+>>>> Author
+>>>>     tv
+>>>> Date
+>>>>     2012-07-26 19:17:41 +0200 (Thu, 26 Jul 2012)
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>>       Log Message
+>>>>
+>>>> revert some duplicated manbo stuff (all identical to default but
+>>>> %_libexecdir that changed to %_libdir when mga forked mdv)
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> Hmm, I'm not sure I understand. AFAIK we have always (i.e. on Mageia and
+>>> on Mandriva before Mageia) had %_libexecdir as %_libdir.
+>>>
+>>
+>> Yep,
+>> see:
+>> http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/packages/updates/2010.1/rpm-manbo-setup/current/SOURCES/manbo.macros?view=markup
+>>
+>>
+>>
+>>> The change means that even 64-bit libexec binaries will be put into
+>>> /usr/lib, is that intentional?
+>>
+>> So this change should be reverted imho...
+> 
+> While I don't have a massively strong opinion on this topic, the only
+> reason we have lib vs lib64 is to avoid name conflicts. If we consider
+> libexec binaries as the kind of binary you'd only have installed once
+> (i.e. not something you need for each arch, then the libexec dir is
+> effectively "a private bin dir" and thus can be the same on both 32 and
+> 64 bit IMO. So I guess I'd ultimately prefer /usr/lib/ to always be used
+> regardless of arch (i.e. one less difference between 32 and 64 bit builds).
+
++1 on one dir regardless of arch, however the question is if that should
+be /usr/lib or /usr/libexec. On fedora it is the latter, and we seem to
+have some stuff (plymouth ans some others) there also.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+