Re: [Smartmontools-support]Building RPM's for SuSE Systems

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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Drew J. Como wrote:

> The problem that I have with the package is that I use
> SuSE Linux throughout my enterprise.  SuSE differs a little
> from RedHat in the fact that the init.d folder is directly
> inside of the /etc folder.
>
> Red Hat:  /etc/rc.d/init.d/xxx
> SuSE:	    /etc/init.d/xxx
>
> I made the changes by hand to the spec file and then tried
> building the RPM.  The RPM is still failing to build since
> the /etc/rc.d/init.d folder does not exist.
>
> What are the other files that I have to modify to get this
> RPM to build?
>
> Any assistance you can offer would be appreciated.

I think I can answer this.

Makefile, since smartmontools.spec contains:

%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install

An ugly fix would be to have /etc/rc.d/init.d as a symlink to
/etc/init.d

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