[Fedora-packaging] section: binaries in /bin and /sbin

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 17:32:09 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 08:53:13AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 08:09 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >This in no longer a problem in Fedora and can be removed:
> >
> >"Binaries placed into /bin and /sbin must not depend upon libraries
> >stored in /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64). Binaries which depend on libraries
> >in /usr/lib* must live in either /usr/bin or /usr/sbin."
> 
> I don't think it can be removed yet, it's still relevant for fedora <
> 17 , though adding a clarification mentioning would indeed be useful.
> 
<nod>

Please open a ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/newticket

and a draft if you'd like (although this is simple enough that we can
probably come up with wording in the meeting.)

We probably also want to add this guideline to the EPEL guidelines at the
same time so that it doesn't get forgotten.

-Toshio
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