note about packaging init scripts

[Mike A. Harris]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:42:58 -0500
>From: Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-maintainers at redhat.com
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>Subject: note about packaging init scripts
>
>If you are packaging init scripts with a file path of
> /etc/init.d/your_script
>you *need* to either:
>
>a) prereq chkconfig (even if you don't call it)
>b) package it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/your_script
>
>As /etc/init.d is a symlink, if you don't do one of
>these, your package may be installed first, and this
>will cause chkconfig to fail to install later.

Wouldn't it be better to do:

PreReq: /etc/init.d




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