* Re: [gentoo-user] Openrc-run
@ 2014-12-05 19:06 99% ` Michael Orlitzky
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From: Michael Orlitzky @ 2014-12-05 19:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 12/05/2014 01:34 PM, James wrote:
> I find references to
> man openrc and man 8 openrc-run.
>
> 'man openrc' nor 'man 8 openrc-run' return anything.
Curiosity piqued:
> commit 3470eda3f5cea437a6de132b1ead3f27effd3902
> Author: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Dec 21 14:51:11 2013 -0600
>
> Rename runscript to openrc-run
>
> This was requested by Debian, because the minicom software, which is
> available on Debian and other distros, has a binary named runscript. We
> are keeping a backward compatibility symlink for now, but this allows
> Debian or any other distro to safely remove the symlink.
>
> X-Gentoo-Bug: 494220
> X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494220
>
> commit 7b5fa011ac7a9544fe68a9abb2f8ef940d9845f7
> Author: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed Dec 11 17:39:38 2013 -0600
>
> Rename the rc binary to openrc
>
> Debian requested this rename due to the "rc" binary conflicting with the
> "rc" binary from the plan 9 shell.
>
> We also add a deprecation warning to the binary when it is run as rc to
> encourage users to switch to openrc instead.
>
> X-Gentoo-Bug: 493958
> X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493958
So, the reason you can't find their man pages is because they don't
exist yet. Try `man 8 rc` or `man 8 runscript` instead.
If you ever need to read a man page that isn't installed, you can give
the path to it locally. So if you clone that repo, you can do:
$ man ./man/openrc-run.8
to read it.
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