On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:20:44PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 02/09/2010 12:58 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> > Hiyas,
> >
> > I noticed that the RPMMacros page does not mention that
> > %{_sharestatedir} expands to %{_prefix}/com on CentOS
> This would be "simply plain wrong".
>
> The GNU Standards define it as:
>
> sharedstatedir'
> The directory for installing architecture-independent data files
> which the programs modify while they run.
>
> On Fedora it evaluates to /var/lib, which is a meaningful setting.
>
> %{_prefix}/com matches to the default the GNU Standards describe, but in
> a distro's constext, this would seem to be "simply plain wrong" to me ==
> I consider the setting on CentOS to be a bug.
>
It is, but it's not something that's going to change within the release.
We need to ducment the difference so people porting a Fedora package to
EPEL-5 know not to rely on %{_sharestatedir} there.
-Toshio
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