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On 12/12/2013 04:41 AM, William Hubbs 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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Make it build-time configurable. Keep default at "rc". Let Debian and |
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others rename it as they want/need. |
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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? |
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It's change to change things, it doesn't fix any bugs we have. |
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So don't break things for fun, please ... |
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> 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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> William |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493958 |
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