Re: [PATCH iproute2] Revert "Makefile: ensure CONF_USR_DIR honours the libdir config"

[Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>]

Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> writes:

> luca.boccassi@gmail.com writes:
>
>> From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.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

Ugh, I mean Andrea, not Luca. Sorry!

> 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.