Jochen Schmitt (Jochen(a)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.)