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

[Thomas Backlund]

27.07.2012 17:16, Anssi Hannula skrev:
> 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.
> 

In that case, I'd say /usr/libexec to keep /usr/lib as arch clean as
possible...

And I guess we will catch any name conflicts when we start full rebuild...

speaking of that btw... anything missing for that, or should we plan &
start the full rebuild... ?

--
Thomas