From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020513 Netscape/7.0b1 Description of problem: Initscripts (and maybe other packages) should require redhat-release because they use it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -e redhat-release || rpm -e rawhide-release 2. init 6 3. Look at the screen while booting: "Welcome to: /etc/redhat-release: no such file or directory" or something. Actual Results: I hit this minor bug while installing a redhat linux system rpm by rpm (rpm -Uhv -r /mnt/mysystemtree) but it can be hit also by uninstalling redhat-release or rawhide-release package which is not hard at all not being required by no other package(s). Additional info: As long as initscripts (particulary rc.sysinit) will print an error if /etc/redhat-release is not present then it should require redhat-release (provided by redhat-release and rawhide-release packages). This file is required by many other scripts from various packages to establish the distribution name or/and other thinkgs.
Will be fixed in 6.89-1.