On 11/11/2013 03:55 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 02:06:45AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 10/28/2013 06:28 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >>> Please rename /sbin/rc to something else. We've had (unrelated) >>> /usr/bin/rc in Debian for at least 18 years. >> >> Outch! This bites hard. Maybe you being the maintainer of the "rc" >> package is why you saw this immediately! :) >> >> Though that's annoying, because upstream must extensively uses "rc". All >> OpenRC commands are in fact using /sbin/rc. For example, /bin/rc-status >> (which shows what is a symlink to /bin/rc, and then /sbin/rc finds out >> that it has been called by using /bin/rc-status, so it prints the status. > > Is there much chance of convincing upstream to consider a migration to > another binary name, perhaps "openrc"?
This is what is going to happen, yes. > If it's a difficult and complex > change it would be best if it was performed upstream I think. Upstream says it will just "break expectation". In other words, it's documented to be /sbin/rc, so renaming it will just be annoying for upstream Gentoo users. Probably they can keep a symlink in /sbin/rc for them for a while... > Although it took Debian to notice the clash, the clash may be a problem for > others as well. Sure! Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5280f393.2090...@debian.org
