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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openrc-run
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:07:14
Message-Id: 54820253.8090302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Openrc-run by James
1 On 12/05/2014 01:34 PM, James wrote:
2 > I find references to
3 > man openrc and man 8 openrc-run.
4 >
5 > 'man openrc' nor 'man 8 openrc-run' return anything.
6
7
8 Curiosity piqued:
9
10 > commit 3470eda3f5cea437a6de132b1ead3f27effd3902
11 > Author: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@×××××.com>
12 > Date: Sat Dec 21 14:51:11 2013 -0600
13 >
14 > Rename runscript to openrc-run
15 >
16 > This was requested by Debian, because the minicom software, which is
17 > available on Debian and other distros, has a binary named runscript. We
18 > are keeping a backward compatibility symlink for now, but this allows
19 > Debian or any other distro to safely remove the symlink.
20 >
21 > X-Gentoo-Bug: 494220
22 > X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494220
23 >
24 > commit 7b5fa011ac7a9544fe68a9abb2f8ef940d9845f7
25 > Author: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@×××××.com>
26 > Date: Wed Dec 11 17:39:38 2013 -0600
27 >
28 > Rename the rc binary to openrc
29 >
30 > Debian requested this rename due to the "rc" binary conflicting with the
31 > "rc" binary from the plan 9 shell.
32 >
33 > We also add a deprecation warning to the binary when it is run as rc to
34 > encourage users to switch to openrc instead.
35 >
36 > X-Gentoo-Bug: 493958
37 > X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493958
38
39
40 So, the reason you can't find their man pages is because they don't
41 exist yet. Try `man 8 rc` or `man 8 runscript` instead.
42
43 If you ever need to read a man page that isn't installed, you can give
44 the path to it locally. So if you clone that repo, you can do:
45
46 $ man ./man/openrc-run.8
47
48 to read it.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Openrc-run James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>