[Fedora-packaging] How important is %{_libdir} to arch-specific but non-multilib packages

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Nov 15 16:03:30 UTC 2012


On 11/15/2012 09:33 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I've thought of one technical thing that is lost if we allow this but it
> may not be that important.  Currently a sysadmin could install packages
> on an x86 and then mount the /usr/lib directory on both x86 and x86_64
> systems.

We already allow folks to use /usr/lib/%{name} and %_libexecdir 
interchangeably (don't we?), so i'd bet that use-case is already out.

-- rex



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