[Yum-devel] New build of yum-utils to FE?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Oct 5 11:58:15 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 22:23 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Seeing this makes me wonder if /usr/lib really is the best place,
> >>>> though, since that's not really safe if you consider native code plugins
> >>>> (which someone could be crazy enough to want to do at some point)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> you'd prefer /usr/libexec? :)
> >>
> >> I suggested /usr/share/yum-plugins at some point but I guess it got lost
> >> in the noise and I didn't care enough to be terribly vocal about it.
> >
> > well /usr/share is definitely not acceptable for arch-specific binaries.
> 
> How are plugins any more arch specific than yum-cli itself? And as Paul 
> commented, the arch-specific parts if such are ever to be encountered in 
> plugins, can be placed in normal python paths and imported from there.
> 

I think what jeremy was talking about is someone writing an i386-only
plugin. If it is arch-specific it is not supposed to be in /usr/share
according to the fhs.

-sv





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