I'm creating an RPM file (with rpmbuild) whose post-install script will create a file in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/. To make sure that the directory already exists, I'd like to specify a dependency on a package which creates it.
Is it correct in this case to add a Requires: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d line to the spec file? Or is it not allowed to depend on directories, and should I rather add a dependency on xorg-x11-xinit package (which appears to provide this directory on my system)?
The package is intended to work on CentOS (RHEL) 6.
This should work (you can Require any path), but you should be depending on the package that provides that path. There must be a reason you are not doing this?