Re: make dist and python files

[Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
>>So my question is, why not have
>>
>># make dist
>>
>>also populate
>>
>>dist/install/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/xen
>>
>>Of course, this won't work for situations where the build machine and 
>>the target machine have a different version of python.
> 
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> All our tools add /lib/python to their library search path, so if you
> install by copying to dist/* to / then things will work -- no need to
> manually add /lib/python to your search path.

Then why not have just one place to install files for both the install 
and dist targets?

Also, I wonder what the distro hackers and FHS experts on the list have 
to say about the target directory (/lib/python)?

	-Arun


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