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 F276C13827E for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:47:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F17FE0BDC; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:47:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com (mail-qc0-f174.google.com [209.85.216.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A71BFE0B61 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id n7so5388980qcx.5 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:47:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=mx32X88s6Cl7RaZMlN7/wrcHvMBzC9k3CMM3y7DFNnI=; b=pxSiGW4nd7xqADgwdJlLTVHKNhEF2hjzDK3h5aS2MvtqmNndEiKlM+SBpqb84kM0iW mCk6EVnxjHl202WBR6xu2wmDP4lTLb3nBaiWEIU5WGvJa+y4Rr++GvAuQKSnWtPdwv4P 35tl/Mb+OMhqoja6sdudwaVZhnkZ7+HHW+RZLTuIY5q2TZr5a2hSrk6TaeGN4nvJhPVD CMfgkRrpxMtkOAv3xEaSLhTXOYtMsyLe5hgnW3n8EgF6J/a5Jwd9e0aa7B4SuVdV81pC PQuDD+J/dPi2Me4Kv6SW4RtogM3sI6AcYUpnuhcNJdZUJ2IcqB8rud5Ik4vHFKKAyJl3 6h6Q== 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 X-Received: by 10.224.55.69 with SMTP id t5mr6363888qag.82.1386794869840; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:47:49 -0800 (PST) Sender: alon.barlev@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.188.132 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:47:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20131211204110.GA30092@linux1> References: <20131211204110.GA30092@linux1> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:47:49 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: g-mKM0M6y891fue-ANiy-Ky__KU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC From: Alon Bar-Lev To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 11dfd19e-c3a1-4f89-868a-060a39c01b12 X-Archives-Hash: 2ebcace04eba876134f861b8bc42a4ae On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:41 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? are you going to rename also rc-service and rc-update? > > William > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493958