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On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 05:48:15PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> All, |
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> fhs 3.0 was approved in June this year [1] [2]. |
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> The piece of it that I want to bring up is the lib and libxx |
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> directories, both in / and /usr. The way I read the fhs, /lib and |
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> /usr/lib should hold the files for the default abi and /libxx and |
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> /usr/libxx should hold the files for the alternate abis. In earlier fhs, |
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> there was an exception for amd64 which stated that the default libraries |
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> should be in /lib64 and /usr/lib64. However, that exception is now gone. |
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> I know there was discussion/work in the past on removing the lib->lib64 |
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> symlinks on amd64, but I don't remember what happened to that |
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> discussion. So, I would like to bring it up again and get the info. |
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> What would it take for us to remove the lib->lib64 links? |
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> What would it take for us to do this migration on live systems? |
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> William |
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> [1] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/FHS |
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> [2] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html |
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Not sure we have to move it. |
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"3.10. /lib<qual> : Alternate format essential shared libraries (optional) |
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3.10.1. Purpose |
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There may be one or more variants of the /lib directory on systems which |
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support more than one binary format requiring separate libraries. [13]" |
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Note 13 is: |
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"[13] This is commonly used for 64-bit or 32-bit support on systems which |
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support multiple binary formats, but require libraries of the same name. |
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In this case, /lib32 and /lib64 might be the library directories, and |
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/lib a symlink to one of them." |
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Unless im misunderstanding, we are fine as is with lib32, lib64 and |
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lib->lib64 |
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-- Jason |
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