noarch and %{_libdir} issues on 64-bit platforms

[Konrad Meyer]

Quoth Peter Lemenkov:
> Hello All!
> 
> If someone tries to package executable script (arch-neytral) which must be
> placed into %{_libdir}/something (for example, nagios-plugin which must go
> into %{_libdir}/nagios/plugins ), he quickly founds that he actually can't
> mark package as noarch, because on both 32- and 64-bit systems %{_libdir}
> points to /usr/lib . There is an obvious workaround - not to mark the
> package as noarch.
> 
> How to overcome this issue and package utility as noarch?
> 
> See details:
> * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423821#c5
> 
> * noarch build:
>   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=696176
> * build w/o "BuildArch:      noarch":
>   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=696178

If it goes in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 depending on arch, it's not noarch.

I think. People who are more confident about this ought to reply.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>
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