2011/6/14 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 06/14/2011 12:26 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Haïkel Guémar wrote: >>> I spent some time yesterday talking with opensuse guys on irc, since >>> /usr/libexec has not been blessed by FHS > libexecdir is GNU Standards for ages (decades). > > It's supposed to be kind of an "auxilliary bindir", to hide away > programs, users are not supposed to execute directly. > > It's formal definition[1] is > > <cite> > libexecdir > > The directory for installing executable programs to be run by other > programs rather than by users. This directory should normally be > ‘/usr/local/libexec’, but write it as ‘$(exec_prefix)/libexec’. (If you > are using Autoconf, write it as ‘@libexecdir@’.) > > The definition of ‘libexecdir’ is the same for all packages, so you > should install your data in a subdirectory thereof. Most packages > install their data under ‘$(libexecdir)/package-name/’, possibly within > additional subdirectories thereof, such as > ‘$(libexecdir)/package-name/machine/version’. > </cite> > > In Fedora, we treat libexecdir as optional and allow packages to install > such "non-user programs" to %libdir/<subdir>/ instead, primarily for > historical reasons. > >> Actually, libexec can be interpreted as being a libdir with the multilib >> suffix "exec" (just like "64" is one), > Multilib subdirs are arbitrary directory names. There is no convention > of them being named "lib*". > > You might not have tripped over such them on intel based platforms, but > are very common on other architectures/OSes. > > Ralf > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Do we agree that until FHS canonicalize libexecdir, libexecdir is the recommended location for helper scripts and that /usr/{lib,share} are *tolerated* (ie: not configurable, requires non-upstream-able intrusive patch etc ...) ? In consequence, we should then update packaging guidelines to explicitely state this. http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
