libdir and python on x86_64

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jun 7 12:39:49 UTC 2006


Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
>> So arch specific stuff will go in lib64/, site-independent stuff will
>> end in lib/
> 
> As a follow-up question, there are cases of sets of python packages that
> expect to be installed in the same tree.  Taking the example of Twisted;
> TwistedCore contains some C-based python modules, and a lot of python
> code.  TwistedNames contains only python code.  Both of them expect to
> end up installed in the same tree in the end, so that both
[snip]
> It seems to me that, for a set of packages that are going to share the
> same module namespace, if any of them contains any arch-dependent code,
> *ALL* of these packages need to go into sitearch.
> 
> In Extras, this would apply to both Twisted and Flumotion.
> 
> Does this seem correct, or am I missing something ?

Hrmm... but how will this work with the non-arch-dependent packages 
being noarch?

Ugh.  Too early.  Need to think more on this one...

Jeremy




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