From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A193C13827E for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EE87E0BAA; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5156EE0B47 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unknown [114.91.186.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: patrick) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D72BD33F4B0 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52A9052E.50301@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:37:02 +0800 From: Patrick Lauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC References: <20131211204110.GA30092@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20131211204110.GA30092@linux1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3852c167-a83f-4d2c-8e42-45adac561420 X-Archives-Hash: 031f45d99a15b89c747896c7b0df4cf7 On 12/12/2013 04:41 AM, 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. Make it build-time configurable. Keep default at "rc". Let Debian and others rename it as they want/need. > 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? It's change to change things, it doesn't fix any bugs we have. So don't break things for fun, please ... > 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 >