Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:17:45 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/compat/compat4x.alpha libc.so.4.bz2.uu libc_r.so.4.bz2.uu libhistory.so.4.bz2.uu libm.so.2.bz2.uu libopie.so.2.bz2.uu libpcap.so.2.bz2.uu libperl.so.3.bz2.uu libreadline.so.4.bz2.uu Message-ID: <20041016061745.GA77261@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041016113048M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041002044957.GA36384@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041003004611E.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20041013195615.GC90229@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041016113048M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:30:48AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> obrien> There is some debate about if compat libs should be placed in
> obrien> /usr/lib/compat or /usr/local/lib/compat. I'm not sure what wa
> obrien> I fall on this... but I'd love to know if we have consensus among
> obrien> committers.
>
> IMHO it depends on where compat libraries come from. If it comes from
> a part of distribution, /usr/lib/compat is good, and if it comes from
> ports (or packages), ${LOCALDIR}/lib/compat would be better.
>
> Since 6-current have no /usr/src/lib/compat, ${LOCALDIR}/lib/compat is
> enough for me.
Since the compat libs from a port can also be installed on 5.x do we
still want to not install them in /usr/lib/compat? Also what about
machines that started out life as 5-CURRENT and are now 6-CURRENT? They
will have compat libs in /usr/lib/compat that won't get cleaned up.
Since that location is searched before /usr/local/lib/compat people could
have a problem.
> Speaking about 'compat libs,' how do we supply older libraries that is
> in /lib? Make a directory /lib/compat (or whereever in /), or ...?
I don't see why they should go in the / partition. If you built a new
.so (say .so.1 -> .so.2), then you should also have all the /[s]bin
consumers of the .so lib updated [to use .so.2] also. You could easily
have /usr/local/bin old binaries that still need the .so.1 version, but
they aren't part of boot on the / partition. So they can get the compat
lib from /usr/lib/compat (or where ever compat libs are installed).
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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