OpenRC README Installation ------------ make install Yup, that simple. Works with GNU make and BSD make. You may wish to tweak the installation with the below arguments PROGLDFLAGS=-static LIBNAME=lib64 DESTDIR=/tmp/openrc-image MKPAM=pam MKTERMCAP=ncurses MKTERMCAP=termcap We don't support building a static OpenRC with PAM. You may need to use PROGLDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bstatic on glibc instead of just -static. You can also brand OpenRC if you so wish like so BRANDING=\"Gentoo/$(uname -s)\" If any of the following files exist then we do not overwrite them /etc/devd.conf /etc/rc /etc/rc.shutdown /etc/conf.d/* rc and rc.shutdown are the hooks from the BSD init into OpenRC. devd.conf is modified from FreeBSD to call /etc/rc.devd which is a generic hook into OpenRC. inittab is the same, but for SysVInit as used by most Linux distrubtions. This can be found in the support folder. Obviously, if you're installing this onto a system that does not use OpenRC by default then you may wish to backup the above listed files, remove them and then install so that the OS hooks into OpenRC. init.d.misc is not installed by default as the scripts will need tweaking on a per distro basis. They are also non essential to the operation of the system. Reporting Bugs ------------- If you installed OpenRC from your chosen distribution, you should report bugs directly to them. For example, if you use Gentoo and emerged OpenRC then you should reports bugs to http://bugs.gentoo.org. Otherwise, you can report them directly to me at http://bugs.marples.name History - by Roy Marples ------------------------ I became a Gentoo/Linux developer in 2004 and wrote the modular network scripts for the Gentoo baselayout package. baselayout is a collection of bash scripts to bring up your computer and it's services. Then towards the end of 2005 I found myself as the primary maintainer for baselayout. At the start of 2007, baselayout-2 is announced to the world, re-writing the core of baselayout in C and allowing POSIX sh init scripts instead of forcing the use of bash. By Mid 2007 I have re-written everything, including init scripts, and alpha and pre baselayout-2 snapshots where put into Gentoo. Towards the end of 2007 I retired as a Gentoo developer for reasons I won't go into here. baselayout-2 was still in the pre stage, and aside from the fbsd users, it was masked everywhere. However, I also desired to keep the baselayout-2 project alive, but outside of Gentoo and into other projects such as FreeBSD. As such, the Gentoo Council have allowed the creation of OpenRC under the 2 clause BSD license, managed by me as an external project.