Bug 143521 - yum puts files in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages
Summary: yum puts files in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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Reported: 2004-12-21 22:05 UTC by Nathan G. Grennan
Modified: 2014-01-21 22:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-12-21 22:18:51 UTC

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Description Nathan G. Grennan 2004-12-21 22:05:07 UTC 
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Description of problem:
yum packaged for x86_64 seems to improperly put files in
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages. It should be
/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages. This package isn't alone, and I
discovered this problem while trying to install bittorrent from
pre-extras.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143520

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.1.12-0.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qf yum | grep site-packages
2. rpm -qf python | grep site-packages

    

Actual Results:  yum uses /usr/lib and python uses /usr/lib64

Expected Results:  yum and python use /usr/lib64

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-12-21 22:18:51 UTC 
yum is noarch, hence its python files go in /usr/lib.  Multilib arches
like x86_64 search both /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib for python files.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to have a noarch python package.
Comment 2 Nathan G. Grennan 2004-12-21 22:32:00 UTC 
I forgot to take noarch into account. In my head I was comparing yum
to python and one is noarch and the other is i386.
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