[Fedora-packaging] Re: note about packaging init scripts

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Mar 10 19:45:08 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:42 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Bill, CCing this over to fedora-packaging to let Tom roll it into
his docs.

-sv





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