New subject: [opensuse-packaging] Re: Proposal: Use /usr/libexec for libexec content

23 Jul 2019

      On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 7:33 AM Richard Brown  wrote:
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On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 15:28 +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 22, Neal Gompa wrote:
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This change would be done in three stages:
1. Make the change to the filesystem package to add /usr/libexec to
the hierarchy.
2. Add /usr/libexec to allowed prefixes in rpmlint-checks and
remove
spec-cleaner rule that assumes /usr/lib == %_libexecdir.
3. Make the change to the rpm package to set %_libexecdir back to
/usr/libexec. This one will cause a fair bit of work to fix
packages
that do the wrong thing one way or another with %_libexecdir.
What do you all think?
I don't see really a problem with this subdirectories in /usr/lib,
as this is nothing a normal user should care about, and for
packages, RPM does take care of if the package uses the correct
macros. But I would not vote against it, too.
I have a much bigger problem with all the configuration files in
/usr/lib and subdirectories, because this makes it really hard
and difficult for admins to find the right one.
While I agree with Thorsten's additional problem, I don't think the
existance of that issue negates Neal's points.
I would quite like to see /usr/libexec established in openSUSE..but how
we will handle executables that currently live in /usr/lib for the 32-
bit version and /usr/lib64 for the 64-bit version?
The last time this had been brought up, it sounded like those were
packaging mistakes, and that binaries being installed into /usr/lib64
needed to be fixed anyway. I don't know how many of those are like
that (I don't have an easy way to get all the spec files and grep
through them like I do for Fedora package specs...), but I think those
would just be fixed so that binaries would be installed correctly into
/usr/libexec.

I don't know of a circumstance where we need multiarch *binaries*
along with multiarch *libraries*.

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[opensuse-packaging] Re: [opensuse-factory] Proposal: Use /usr/libexec for libexec content

Neal Gompa

Thorsten Kukuk

Neal Gompa

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