Bug 37891

Summary:	strange rpm installation location choices
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Powertools	Reporter:	Mike Rubel <mrubel>
Component:	mpich	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1
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Description Mike Rubel 2001-04-26 18:08:51 UTC

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All relevant files are stored under /usr/lib/mpich/, which has its own
bin, doc, lib, include, and so on.  Why installed in such an odd way?
Install should work like GNU stow; libs in /usr/lib, man pages in
/usr/share/man, bins in /usr/bin, includes in /usr/include, and so on.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/; #7.1 powertools cd-rom
2. rpm -qlp mpich-1.2.0-12.i386.rpm
	

Actual Results:  files to be located in /usr/lib/mpich/ and
/usr/share/doc/mpich-1.2.0/

Expected Results:  files to be located in more conventional places,
/usr/lib, /usr/share/doc/, /usr/share/man, /usr/include, /usr/bin, etc.

With mpich installed as the rpm package specifies, nothing (manuals, bins,
and so on) ends up being visible to an end user with normal $PATH choices. 
The user would need to be told (by sysadmin) that the package has been
installed, and where to find it.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-04-27 14:22:16 UTC

It's installed this way because the package doesn't honor what it's told to with
configure.

I'll take a shot at fixing it when I upgrade the package.

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-04-30 16:20:55 UTC

Their build system is still rather "interesting" (AKA horrible), and really,
really wants the files there.

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-05-01 14:17:05 UTC

mpich 1.2.1-1 moves the files to saner locations.