From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I9SNr-0002P3-Fr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:09:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6DL4vZO018408; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:04:57 GMT Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6DL4uLV018403 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:04:57 GMT Received: from TesterServ.TesterNet ([70.83.102.151]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JL4000LFYK7KY90@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:04:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from uucp by TesterServ.TesterNet with local-rmail (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I9SJr-00052o-Nq for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:04:55 -0400 Received: by TesterTop3.tester.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF5DF4A4038; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:04:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:04:48 -0400 From: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Files installed to /lib or /usr/lib? In-reply-to: <1184359928.22061.101.camel@athena.fprintf.net> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <1184360688.6448.25.camel@localhost> Organization: Gentoo Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-aAlcvbV0B4o9PrwzV8st" References: <1184359928.22061.101.camel@athena.fprintf.net> X-Archives-Salt: 6135ca2d-828a-4fa2-8b73-c070cb0a2c9d X-Archives-Hash: dbd1dcd63eae549285aa0a622f7f460b --=-aAlcvbV0B4o9PrwzV8st Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-13-07 at 16:52 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:01 +0200, Sven K=C3=B6hler wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > what's the current way of dealing with the folders /lib and /usr/lib > > which are symlinks to /lib64 or /usr/lib64 on amd64 systems? > >=20 > > Here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D185126#c3 > > one of the gentoo devs (Jakub) thought, that paths like /usr/lib > > shouldn't be hardcoded. Hmm - to me, this statement only makes sense, i= f > > ebuilds installing files to /lib or /usr/lib are actually disliked. > >=20 > > But actually, very fundamental stuff like udev, grub-static, etc. > > still install there files to /lib or /usr/lib instead of /lib64 or > > /usr/lib64. > >=20 > > So should these packages be fixed? > > Or is it intentional or at least legal, that they install files to /lib > > or /usr/lib on amd64? > >=20 >=20 > binary libraries should not be installed to /usr/lib or /lib (and will > fail multilib-strict checks, if they are). Anything else, such as > python files or text files, can be installed in /usr/lib and /lib. Even then, anything that is different between architectures should be in /usr/lib. --=20 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte tester@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer --=-aAlcvbV0B4o9PrwzV8st Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGl+jwHTiOWk7ZorsRAo9ZAJ9NHvK90jgKCc+XsAMZkMWxx1QX3QCfWY/l ipmtJVAquZmkFC96fPmnLd4= =/bqy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-aAlcvbV0B4o9PrwzV8st-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list