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Message-ID: <ZVJnKjhLm-MiHn6e@renaissance-vector>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:12:58 +0100
From: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@...hat.com>
To: stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] Revert "Makefile: ensure CONF_USR_DIR honours
 the libdir config"

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 04:40:23PM +0000, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> This patch was applied to iproute2/iproute2.git (main)
> by Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>:
> 
> On Mon,  6 Nov 2023 00:14:10 +0000 you wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Here is the summary with links:
>   - [iproute2] Revert "Makefile: ensure CONF_USR_DIR honours the libdir config"
>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/commit/?id=deb66acabe44
> 
> You are awesome, thank you!
> -- 
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> 
>

Hi Stephen, actually Luca and I agreed on a different solution, see
"[PATCH iproute2] Makefile: use /usr/share/iproute2 for config files".

I can rebase that patch on top of this one, if this is ok for you.

Regards,
Andrea