[Fedora-packaging] Re: Usage of {_libdir} or {_lib} in noarch packages

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Sat Dec 20 20:31:49 UTC 2008


On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:46:44AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> What about noarch python modules which live
> in /usr/lib/python(ver)/site-packages/ ?  Perl in /usr/lib/perl(ver)/ ?
> So on, and so forth.

Should be the only 2 exceptions. In my opinion these are wrong but long
established, and maybe not worth changing, or it is to be seen with
their maintainers.

There is a rpmlint warning when there is only noarch content in
%_libdir, I think this is right.

--
Pat




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