/usr/sbin/validate clash with /usr/bin/validate

[Panu Matilainen]

On 05/24/2012 08:18 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 09:13:51AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> On 5/24/12 7:50 AM, Till Maas wrote:
>
>>> But then the location if a command will depend on whether the system is
>>> a 64 or 32 bit system, which makes it more error prone to write software that
>>> uses such commands on both kind of systems.
>>
>> libexecdir is already a macro expanded at build time.  If you were
>> hardcoding /usr/libexec you were already broken on non-Red-Hat-like
>> Linuxes.  Don't let already being broken be an excuse for continuing
>> to be broken.
>
> Using /usr/libexec in a noarch Fedora package did always work. But if
> binaries are in %{_libdir}, a noarch package cannot always contain the
> correct path, because the noarch package is the same for both 32 and 64
> bit systems. I did not know that debian or other distros do not use
> /usr/libexec, but I believe that debian uses /usr/lib for both 32 and 64
> bit systems, so using /usr/lib/<name>/ will work on both archs.

Yup. Sure we could flip %_libexecdir to point to /usr/lib (NOT 
%{_libdir}) instead of /usr/libexec and rebuild (all) packages, most of 
them probably wouldn't notice a thing. But then I also dont really see 
the point of turning /usr/lib into even bigger mess than it already is.

	- Panu -