Re: %_initscript??

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris meteng on ca>]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Giulio Orsero wrote:

>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:30:17 +0200
>From: Giulio Orsero <giulioo@tiscalinet.it>
>To: rpm-list@redhat.com
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Subject: Re: %_initscript??
>
>On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 20:29:55 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>
>>%_initdir or %_initscripts or something like that, where this
>>macro expands to /etc/rc.d on Red Hat <= 6.2, and /etc on 7.0 and
>>up.
>AFAIK rh70 has initscripts in the same places of rh6.x.
>It's just that there are synlinks added.
>The change you are talking about maybe will be done in future versions.

>From what I understand from pinstripe-list, Red Hat 7.0 is FHS
compliant, and thus the dirs are moved.  I believe symlinks are
in place but I do not want to rely on them.  A user could
delete the links for example.  If my scripts rely on symlinks
being there, then it is a support issue for me when they are
removed.  At some point in the future the links are likely to
disappear, and there is no reason my RPM packages should lose
compatibility with 5.x or 6.x distributions if the software will
work on those dists.  A %_initdir would make life easier.  It's
the same idea behind using something like /dev/cdrom as a symlink
instead of using /dev/hdc for example.  



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