Re: [gentoo-dev] Detecting Baselayout2/OpenRC from init.d scripts (summary of debate and plans from bug 270646)

[Roy Marples]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 08 June 2009 09:09:43 Roy Marples wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> if openrc versions are causing a level of incompatibility, then it should
>>> itself be setting up an env var for init.d scripts to key off of rather
>>> than having to figure out what's going on via the filesystem.  the point
>>> of this thread is to detect baselayout-1 vs openrc only.
>> RC_VERSION is available in 0.5.0
>> However, for VServer it needs to be easily available without running
>> anything, hence this discussion.
>
> if it's in the execution environment of the init.d script,nothing was run
> -mike

You would have to ask the VServer team, but my understanding was they 
needed to detect version of OpenRC in a container from the host before 
the container is started.

Thanks

Roy