[Fedora-packaging] Exceptions for packages placing files into /bin, /sbin, /lib or /lib64

Jaroslav Skarvada jskarvad at redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 08:47:55 UTC 2012


According to the packaging guidelines [1] packages for F17+ must not
place files or directories into /bin, /sbin, /lib or /lib64.
But it seems it is not possible with glibc [2] (and maybe others), thus
I propose adding exceptions list to the guidelines

thanks & regards

Jaroslav


[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Filesystem_Layout
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860579


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