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
