Bug 198002

Summary:	pvm installs ELF binaries in /usr/share
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Jackson <ajax>
Component:	pvm	Assignee:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Adam Jackson 2006-07-07 23:18:54 UTC

Description of problem:

FHS violation:

# rpm -qf /usr/share/pvm3/pvmgs/LINUX/pvmgs
pvm-3.4.5-7.fc6
# file /usr/share/pvm3/pvmgs/LINUX/pvmgs
/usr/share/pvm3/pvmgs/LINUX/pvmgs: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped

Several others in the same directory.

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2006-07-19 23:48:50 UTC

I can't see what problems having some executables under /usr/share causes .
To fix this in pvm would require major reengineering (especially of scripts
and Makefiles) and I don't see that it is warranted.
pvm should probably be moved to extras anyway.