Hi all, I was performing a package review for RPM Fusion: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153
RPM Fusion follows the Fedora Packaging Guidelines so I think I can ask here a question it came to me during the review.
This package has some exec files correctly installed by the packager in %libexecdir/packagename/bin instead of %libdir/packagename/bin because they are called by the main program who sits in %bindir.
The files in %libexecdir use some files in %libexecdir/packagename/doc to show help, options, examples, etc when called with some parameters.
Is it acceptable to leave these files here? Or they should be moved somewhere else?
They cannot be installed in %docdir because they affect the runtime of the application: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Documentation
Thanks in advance for you help.
Bye,
Andrea.
On 11/28/2010 08:39 PM, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
Hi all, I was performing a package review for RPM Fusion: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153
RPM Fusion follows the Fedora Packaging Guidelines so I think I can ask here a question it came to me during the review.
This package has some exec files correctly installed by the packager in %libexecdir/packagename/bin instead of %libdir/packagename/bin because they are called by the main program who sits in %bindir.
The files in %libexecdir use some files in %libexecdir/packagename/doc to show help, options, examples, etc when called with some parameters.
Is it acceptable to leave these files here?
No, this is not acceptable.
Think of libexecdir as an auxilliary bindir, which is supposed to take applications, users are not supposed to invoke directly.
Or they should be moved somewhere else?
Yes.
They cannot be installed in %docdir because they affect the runtime of the application:
You'd have to provide more details about how these "docs affect the runtime" to be able to help.
In case applications (Independently of where they are installed) access them directly (e.g. because these docs are part of an application-specific, application-integrated documentation system), /usr/share/<package> or a subdir of it may be a suitable candidate.
Ralf
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
On 11/28/2010 08:39 PM, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
Hi all, I was performing a package review for RPM Fusion: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153
RPM Fusion follows the Fedora Packaging Guidelines so I think I can ask here a question it came to me during the review.
This package has some exec files correctly installed by the packager in %libexecdir/packagename/bin instead of %libdir/packagename/bin because they are called by the main program who sits in %bindir.
The files in %libexecdir use some files in %libexecdir/packagename/doc to show help, options, examples, etc when called with some parameters.
Is it acceptable to leave these files here?
No, this is not acceptable.
Think of libexecdir as an auxilliary bindir, which is supposed to take applications, users are not supposed to invoke directly.
Files in libexecdir are only called by a wrapper that sits in bindir.
You'd have to provide more details about how these "docs affect the runtime" to be able to help.
In case applications (Independently of where they are installed) access them directly (e.g. because these docs are part of an application-specific, application-integrated documentation system), /usr/share/<package> or a subdir of it may be a suitable candidate.
Yes, that's the case. I agree datadir/package_name is the best option we have.
Thank you for your reply.
Regards,
Andrea.
Have no Ida how this email come to me:) But - best way is to let them pass to doc dir, and link them from the location where program expect them, so both sides are satisfied.
Regards J. Redhar cz
On 11/28/2010 08:39 PM, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
Hi all, I was performing a package review for RPM Fusion: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153
RPM Fusion follows the Fedora Packaging Guidelines so I think I can ask here a question it came to me during the review.
This package has some exec files correctly installed by the packager in %libexecdir/packagename/bin instead of %libdir/packagename/bin because they are called by the main program who sits in %bindir.
The files in %libexecdir use some files in %libexecdir/packagename/doc to show help, options, examples, etc when called with some parameters.
Is it acceptable to leave these files here? Or they should be moved somewhere else?
They cannot be installed in %docdir because they affect the runtime of the application: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Documentation
Thanks in advance for you help.
Bye,
Andrea.
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On 11/29/2010 07:33 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
Have no Ida how this email come to me:) But - best way is to let them pass to doc dir, and link them from the location where program expect them, so both sides are satisfied.
a) docs below libexecdir are always wrong "by definition of libexecdir"
b) This kind of symlinks only work if docs are considered strictly optional by applications, because rpm --exclude-docs would break such kind of symlinks.
Ralf
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