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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:47:56
Message-Id: CAOazyz0BV+ZNY6L8J2N5TZEkM2KY5ULHZ4gDfLifeFa5wU=BgQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC by William Hubbs
1 On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:41 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > All,
4 >
5 > We got a request from Debian to rename the "rc" binary of OpenRC due to
6 > a naming conflict they have. They have a port of the at&t plan 9 shell,
7 > which has a binary named "rc" as well[1].
8 >
9 > My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be
10 > unique.
11 >
12 > I know at least one thing that will break is everyone's inittab, so
13 > should I sed their inittab in our live ebuild or expect them to fix it
14 > and give a warning? I know that once OpenRC with this change is
15 > released, it will need to probably be p.masked until there is a new
16 > release of sysvinit that updates the inittab.
17 >
18 > I'm not sure what else will break.
19 >
20 > Does anyone have any ideas wrt other things to look for, or should I
21 > make the changes upstream and have people let us know what
22 > else breaks?
23
24 are you going to rename also rc-service and rc-update?
25
26 >
27 > William
28 >
29 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493958

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>