Re: [PATCH] Revert "kmod: Use base_libdir for installing libkmod"

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 09:52 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 17 mei 2012, om 23:02 heeft Richard Purdie het vo
> Those QA checks are a joke. I can fix the QA warnings by moving all
> kmod binaries to $bindir or $sbindir since binaries in /usr/bin
> and /usr/bin are exempt from the checks. That would break the
> split /usr case as well.  These checks are global as well when they
> only should apply to recipes needed to get /usr mounted.
> 
> That's why I consider the current checks misguided and harmfull. As
> seen from the breakage it allows people to break pkgconfig, which
> didn't get picked up by QA checks. And then it turns out that you an
> fix the QA warnings in such a way that it breaks the intent of the
> warnings.

So we need to improve the QA checks, no argument here.

> But this is all a false dillemma, you could have merged Otavio's patch
> (which I Ack'ed) which supports split /usr and puts the pkgconfig in
> the right place.

I likely still will but I was worried when he replied saying it still needed more
testing. I took your reply to the consolidated pull request to refer to
your patch.

Cheers,

Richard