Re: How to properly go from arch-specific to noarch? (Finnish spell-checking)
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:02:48PM +0200, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
Thanks, Zbyszek!
I just realised one thing, which may affect the arch/noarch question.
Upstream prefers to place the data files under /usr/lib/voikko. Of
course, in a 64 bit system this would be /usr/lib64/voikko. But if I
make the package noarch, %{_libdir} will change depending on the
architecture of the system, which builds the package. So, should I
just make the package arch-specific anyway or try to come up with
another location for the data files? Logically, it could be
%{_datadir}. I'll need to test that the code actually works, if I use
that.
If the files are not arch-specific, just override the location to be
always /usr/lib/voikko. Pedantically speaking, this is not exactly following
the FHS, but it's easiest to follow upstream here. The difference between
/usr/lib and /usr/share is unimportant.
Zbyszek