Bill Nottingham schrieb:

Jochen Schmitt (Jochen@herr-schmitt.de) said:

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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

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote, at 05/20/2009 12:44 AM +9:00:

On 05/19/2009 11:38 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:

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If so, it may be nice, if someone can correct

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

for clarification.

Corrected.

~spot

Then would you correct this? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript#Initscripts_on_the_f...

Regards, Mamoru

On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

On 05/19/2009 12:17 PM, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:

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Tom "spot" Callaway wrote, at 05/20/2009 12:44 AM +9:00:

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On 05/19/2009 11:38 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:

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If so, it may be nice, if someone can correct

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

for clarification.

Corrected.

~spot

Then would you correct this? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript#Initscripts_on_th e_filesystem

Done.

Note that _initddir doesn't exist in F-9 or any EL versions at the moment, it would be good to mention especially the latter.

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/455279