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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > 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.
