[Fedora-packaging] initddir vs initrddir

[Jochen Schmitt]

Bill Nottingham schrieb:
> Jochen Schmitt (Jochen at herr-schmitt.de) said: 
>   
>> Hallo,
>>
>> on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501130 the submitter
>> of a review request has posted the following coment:
>>
>> Well, /usr/lib/rpm/platform/i586-linux/macros from rpm-4.6+ shows following:
>>
>> %_initddir              %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d
>> # Deprecated misspelling
>> %_initrddir             %{_initddir}  
>>
>>
>> For clarification I want to ask for the current status of using  
>> _initrddir versus
>> _initddir on the packaging guildelines.
>>     
>
> Honestly? I'd say use neither, as _sysconfdir is an overridable macro, and
> if you actually use either _initrddir or _initddir in the case where
> _sysconfdir is overriden, your script won't work, at all. 
>
> (That being said, _initddir is more correct, as the scripts aren't initrds.)
>
>   
If so, it may be nice, if someone can correct

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/RPMMacros

for clarification.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt