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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:41 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> All, |
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> We got a request from Debian to rename the "rc" binary of OpenRC due to |
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> a naming conflict they have. They have a port of the at&t plan 9 shell, |
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> which has a binary named "rc" as well[1]. |
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> My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be |
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> unique. |
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> I know at least one thing that will break is everyone's inittab, so |
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> should I sed their inittab in our live ebuild or expect them to fix it |
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> and give a warning? I know that once OpenRC with this change is |
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> released, it will need to probably be p.masked until there is a new |
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> release of sysvinit that updates the inittab. |
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> I'm not sure what else will break. |
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> Does anyone have any ideas wrt other things to look for, or should I |
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> make the changes upstream and have people let us know what |
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> else breaks? |
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are you going to rename also rc-service and rc-update? |
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> William |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493958 |