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

[Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>]

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
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.

Thanks!

> This reverts commit 946753a4459bd035132a27bb2eb87529c1979b90.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> ---
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 54539ce4..7d1819ce 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ endif
>  PREFIX?=/usr
>  SBINDIR?=/sbin
>  CONF_ETC_DIR?=/etc/iproute2
> -CONF_USR_DIR?=$(LIBDIR)/iproute2
> +CONF_USR_DIR?=$(PREFIX)/lib/iproute2
>  NETNS_RUN_DIR?=/var/run/netns
>  NETNS_ETC_DIR?=/etc/netns
>  DATADIR?=$(PREFIX)/share