rpm4/rpm5 incompat: rpm5 firing on provides

Elan Ruusamäe glen at pld-linux.org
Tue Oct 30 18:45:52 CET 2012


On 10/30/2012 06:58 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 18:47:18 +0200, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
>
>>>>> >>> >so if "initscript" package is removed (replaced by rc-scripts), trigger locates interface configs to directory "rc-scripts" expects
>>>>> >>> >
>>> >>Is the directory renaming really necessary?
>> >hell knows, it's been renamed since '99:)
> Hint: it's better to link directories to keep compatibility, just like
> /etc/init.d was brought to PLD.
changing dir to symlink did not work properly until it got working 
%pretrans  (added in 4.4.2?)

so, probably it was too advanced black magic back then :P

-- 
glen



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