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On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:50:28 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I have been dealing with a bug in openrc which prompted me to look at |
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> our directory structure for libraries on 64 bit systems. The bug will |
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> be referenced below[1]. The problem in the bug isn't the location of |
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> libraries, but the fact that there is a mount point stored under the |
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> library directories. |
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> Here is what I've found in fhs [2]. |
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> - /lib should always exist on all architectures. |
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> - /lib64 should only exist on amd64, ppc64, sparc64 and s390x. It |
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> should hold 64 bit libraries, and /lib should hold 32 bit (or |
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> 31 bit on s390x) libraries. |
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> - /lib should hold 64 bit libraries on ia64. |
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That's basically profiles/features/multilib. While amd64 uses |
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profiles/features/multilib/lib32. |
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> If there is no opposition, what would it take for us to do this? |
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Migration seems at least hard for users. Fresh systems should be simple |
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to deal with. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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