Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

On 12/11/2013 08:47 PM, Chris Reffett wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 3:41 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> We got a request from Debian to rename the "rc" binary of OpenRC due to
>> a naming conflict they have. They have a port of the at&t plan 9 shell,
>> which has a binary named "rc" as well[1].
>>
>> My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be
>> unique.
>>
>> I know at least one thing that will break is everyone's inittab, so
>> should I sed their inittab in our live ebuild or expect them to fix it
>> and give a warning? I know that once OpenRC with this change is
>> released, it will need to probably be p.masked until there is a new
>> release of sysvinit that updates the inittab.
>>
>> I'm not sure what else will break.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas wrt other things to look for, or should I
>> make the changes upstream and have people let us know what
>> else breaks?
>>
>> William
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493958
> The idea of running a sed on inittab in an ebuild, no matter what the
> context, terrifies me. Perhaps we can ease this in slowly by renaming rc
> -> openrc and symlinking rc -> openrc and making a release with that
> change concurrent with a news item? Or even just do that in the ebuild
> rather than in the actual sources. I don't think Debian will keel over
> and die if it takes a little extra time for the change to go through,
> and it beats a ton of broken systems.
> 
> Chris Reffett
> 
> 

+1

The ebuild can grep the inittab and it if finds an "rc" there, just
print a huge warning telling the user to migrate || die.

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Regards,
Markos Chandras