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

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 15 16:42:57 UTC 2012


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:40:28AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>We already allow folks to use /usr/lib/%{name} and %_libexecdir
> >>interchangeably (don't we?),
> >I think that's the question at hand, actually.
> See
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir
> not exactly 100% interchangeable ... but already does allow
> /usr/lib/... in the cases where libexecdir isn't directly supported

Nope -- it allows %{_libdir}, which on 64-bit is /usr/lib64. You're not
supposed to put 64-bit binaries under /usr/lib/%{name}.

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