[Fedora-packaging] Draft: Init Scripts

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Feb 19 16:27:16 UTC 2007


Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs at math.uh.edu) said: 
> Here's another possibly related question I found while grepping
> through core package specs:
> 
> Do we care about use of %{_initrddir} versus
> %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/?  Is one preferred over the other?

Techncially, someone who redefines %{_sysconfdir} for init scripts
is just asking for pain; among other things, the path is compiled
in to chkconfig and various other scripts.

Bill




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