Re: Alternate places to install specialized binaries

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On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I maintain a package which comes with some benchmarking tools.  I
> would like to package these, but they have very generic names like
> "boot-benchmark", "analysis".  Also the tools are very specialized --
> you would only want them if you already know you need them.
>
> I wonder if people have opinions on the best way to package these.  It
> seems to me the options are:
>
> (1) Put them in %{_bindir} as they are.  Likely a bad idea.
>
> (2) Put them in some other binary directory.  Not sure which though,
> maybe %{_libdir}/%{name}/ ?
>
> (3) Rename them and put them in %{_bindir}.  This is technically
> difficult, because the binaries have manual pages which would all have
> to be patched to refer to the new names.
>

Wouldn't these qualify to go under %{_libexecdir}/%{name}? I always
thought that's where this kind of stuff went...



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