Re: Please do not redefine %_bindir

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 21:07 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Building the fedora 9 cpio package for a distribution that puts 
> install-info into /usr/bin (where it probably belongs - the info dir is 
> in /usr/share so /usr is going to be mounted when you run it, and users 
> can make there own info dir so it probably shouldn't be a /sbin or 
> /usr/sbin binary, but anyway ...)

install-info belongs into /sbin or /usr/sbin, to keep it out of an
ordinary user's $PATH.

> So - to port the rpm I needed to change the references to 
> /sbin/install-info to %{_bindir}/install-info
Don't do this. Your package MUST comply to the Fedora conventions.

Ralf


--
Fedora-packaging mailing list
Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging

[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Big List of Linux Books]     [Yosemite Forum]     [KDE Users]

  Powered by Linux