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Bug 1611649 - drop the legacy initscipts directories
Summary: drop the legacy initscipts directories
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: chkconfig
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lukáš Nykrýn
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: IoT
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-08-02 14:37 UTC by Peter Robinson
Modified: 2018-08-02 16:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-08-02 15:16:49 UTC
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Description Peter Robinson 2018-08-02 14:37:39 UTC 
In the vast majority of cases the legacy initscripts directories are no longer used, in the cases where they are the packages now need to depend on initscripts package anyway which provides these directories. chkconfig itself is useful without these directories (or a dependency on initscripts).

diff --git a/chkconfig.spec b/chkconfig.spec
index c79f7bb..fcf6b94 100644
--- a/chkconfig.spec
+++ b/chkconfig.spec
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ make check
 %install
 make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT MANDIR=%{_mandir} SBINDIR=%{_sbindir} install
 
-mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/rc.d/init.d
-ln -s rc.d/init.d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/init.d
-for n in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6; do
-    mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/rc.d/rc${n}.d
-    ln -s rc.d/rc${n}.d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/rc${n}.d
-done
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/chkconfig.d
 
 %find_lang %{name}
@@ -54,12 +48,6 @@ mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/chkconfig.d
 /sbin/chkconfig
 %{_sbindir}/update-alternatives
 %{_sbindir}/alternatives
-/etc/chkconfig.d
-/etc/init.d
-/etc/rc.d
-/etc/rc.d/init.d
-/etc/rc[0-6].d
-/etc/rc.d/rc[0-6].d
 %dir /var/lib/alternatives
 %{_mandir}/*/chkconfig*
 %{_mandir}/*/update-alternatives*
Comment 1 Lukáš Nykrýn 2018-08-02 15:16:49 UTC 
Chkconfig operates on those directories, which means it is either supposed to own them or have a dependency on a package that owns them.
Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2018-08-02 15:19:55 UTC 
(In reply to Lukáš Nykrýn from comment #1)
> Chkconfig operates on those directories, which means it is either supposed
> to own them or have a dependency on a package that owns them.

But it can also do systemd one can it not?
Comment 3 Lukáš Nykrýn 2018-08-02 15:58:16 UTC 
Yes it can, but I don't see that as an argument.

But imagine the following scenario, during installation of a service with initscripts, you don't have to necessary install initscripts package first, since that is a runtime dependency, but you need to have chkconfig already, because it is used in scriptlets. And in such moments you need to have those directories and they need to be put there by chkconfig.
Comment 4 Peter Robinson 2018-08-02 16:20:29 UTC 
Frankly if I can split out alternatives I really can't bring myself to care because I can remove chkconfig and hence the directories in the all the general Fedora use cases I care about
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