Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Files installed to /lib or /usr/lib?
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:53:57
Message-Id: 1184359928.22061.101.camel@athena.fprintf.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Files installed to /lib or /usr/lib? by "Sven Köhler"
1 On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:01 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > what's the current way of dealing with the folders /lib and /usr/lib
5 > which are symlinks to /lib64 or /usr/lib64 on amd64 systems?
6 >
7 > Here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185126#c3
8 > one of the gentoo devs (Jakub) thought, that paths like /usr/lib
9 > shouldn't be hardcoded. Hmm - to me, this statement only makes sense, if
10 > ebuilds installing files to /lib or /usr/lib are actually disliked.
11 >
12 > But actually, very fundamental stuff like udev, grub-static, etc.
13 > still install there files to /lib or /usr/lib instead of /lib64 or
14 > /usr/lib64.
15 >
16 > So should these packages be fixed?
17 > Or is it intentional or at least legal, that they install files to /lib
18 > or /usr/lib on amd64?
19 >
20
21 binary libraries should not be installed to /usr/lib or /lib (and will
22 fail multilib-strict checks, if they are). Anything else, such as
23 python files or text files, can be installed in /usr/lib and /lib.
24
25 Daniel
26
27 --
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Files installed to /lib or /usr/lib? "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>