Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 389251
symlinks and packaging
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:23 EST
Description of problem: tcl-8.4 has moved from /usr/lib/tcl8.4 to /usr/share/tcl8.4. Please adjust the packaging of the other dependent rpms to also use /usr/share/tcl8.4 instead of the symlink: symlink /usr/lib/tcl8.4 from tcl-8.4.15-5.fc8.i386.rpm is used as directory name in tkdnd-1.0a2-9.fc8.i386.rpm, amsn-0.96-7.fc7.i386.rpm, tbcload-1.4-5.20061030cvs.fc8.i386.rpm regards, Florian La Roche Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
%{libdir}/tcl%{tcl_version} is used to package arch-specific tcl-packages, what is wrong with that? It surely can't go in datadir?
what i mean is: the symlink should be an actual dir, not a symlink. This will change with the release of tcl/tk 8.5
Seems like this change is now already done for the 8.4 release. Is /usr/share not possible for this package? regards, Florian La Roche
Well, /usr/share is only for arch-independent stuff. Both amsn and tkdnd are arch-dependent, that's why they can't go there. From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Tcl which is still a draft, but a good guideline nonetheless: "Tcl extension packages must be installed in %{_datadir}/tcl8.x if they are noarch packages containing only Tcl code, or %{_libdir}/tcl8.x if they are arch-specific extensions containing shared libraries."
Ok, seems like the TODO section in the above wiki has all the needed items in it and tcl needs to be fixed first. Thanks a lot, Florian La Roche
I'd like to fix all installation path in tcl8.5. I created testing rpm, this problem is related with bug#160441