netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] Revert "Makefile: ensure CONF_USR

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 13:54:19 +0000
From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@...il.com>
To: Petr Machata <petrm@...dia.com>
Cc: aclaudi@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] Revert "Makefile: ensure CONF_USR_DIR honours
 the libdir config"

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 13:51, Petr Machata <petrm@...dia.com> wrote:
>
> luca.boccassi@...il.com writes:
>
> > From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>
> >
> > LIBDIR in Debian and derivatives is not /usr/lib/, it's
> > /usr/lib/<architecture triplet>/, which is different, and it's the
> > wrong location where to install architecture-independent default
> > configuration files, which should always go to /usr/lib/ instead.
> > Installing these files to the per-architecture directory is not
> > the right thing, hence revert the change.
>
> So I looked into the Fedora package. Up until recently, the files were
> in /etc, but it seems there was a deliberate change in the spec file
> this September that moved them to /usr/lib or /usr/lib64.
>
> Luca -- since you both sent the patch under reversion, and are Fedora
> maintainer, could you please elaborate on what the logic was behind it?
> It does look odd to me to put config files into an arch-dependent
> directory, but I've been out of packaging for close to a decade at this
> point.

I am not a Fedora maintainer, and an arch-dependent triplet
subdirectory is exactly the problem that this patch is fixing.