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# OpenRC NEWS
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This file will contain a list of notable changes for each release. Note
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the information in this file is in reverse order.
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## OpenRC-0.28
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This version mounts efivars read only due to concerns about changes in
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this file system making systems unbootable. If you need to change something
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in this path, you will need to re-mount it read-write, make the change
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and re-mount it read-only.
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Also, you can override this behavior by adding a line for efivars to
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fstab if you want efivars mounted read-write.
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For more information on this issue, see the following url:
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https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues/134
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## OpenRC-0.25
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This version contains an OpenRC-specific implementation of init for
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Linux which can be used in place of sysvinit or any other init process.
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For information on its usage, see the man pages for openrc-init (8) and
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openrc-shutdown (8).
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## OpenRC-0.24.1
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This version starts cleaning up the dependencies so that rc_parallel
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will work correctly.
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The first step in this process is to remove the 'before *' from the
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depend functions in the clock services. This means some services not
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controlled by OpenRC may now start before instead of after the clock
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service. If it is important for these services to start after the clock
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service, they need to have 'after clock' added to their depend
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functions.
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## OpenRC-0.24
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Since the deptree2dot tool and the perl requirement are completely
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optional, the deptree2dot tool has been moved to the support directory.
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As a result, the MKTOOLS=yes/no switch has been removed from the makefiles.
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This version adds the agetty service which can be used to spawn
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agetty on a specific terminal. This is currently documented in the
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agetty-guide.md file at the top level of this distribution.
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## OpenRC-0.23
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The tmpfiles.d processing code, which was part of previous versions of
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OpenRC, has been separated into its own package [1]. If you need to
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process systemd style tmpfiles.d files, please install this package.
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[1] https://github.com/openrc/opentmpfiles
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## OpenRC-0.22
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In previous versions of OpenRC, configuration information was processed
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so that service-specific configuration stored in /etc/conf.d/* was
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overridden by global configuration stored in /etc/rc.conf. This release
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reverses that. Global configuration is now overridden by
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service-specific configuration.
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The swapfiles service, which was basically a copy of the swap service,
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has been removed. If you are only using swap partitions, this change
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will not affect you. If you are using swap files, please adjust the
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dependencies of the swap service as shown in /etc/conf.d/swap.
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## OpenRC-0.21
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This version adds a daemon supervisor which can start daemons and
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restart them if they crash. See supervise-daemon-guide.md in the
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distribution for details on its use.
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It is now possible to mark certain mount points as critical. If these
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mount points are unable to be mounted, localmount or netmount will fail.
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This is handled in /etc/conf.d/localmount and /etc/conf.d/netmount. See
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these files for the setup.
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The deprecation messages in 0.13.x for runscript and rc are now
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made visible in preparation for the removal of these binaries in 1.0.
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The steps you should take to get rid of these warnings is to run openrc
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in initialization steps instead of rc and change the shebang lines in
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service scripts to refer to "openrc-run" instead of "runscript".
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In 0.21.4, a modules-load service was added. This works like the
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equivalent service in systemd. It looks for files named *.conf first in
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/usr/lib/modules-load.d, then /run/modules-load.d, then
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/etc/modules-load.d. These files contain a list of modules, one per
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line, which should be loaded into the kernel. If a file name appears in
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/run/modules-load.d, it overrides a file of the same name in
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/usr/lib/modules-load.d. A file appearing in /etc/modules-load.d
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overrides a file of the same name in both previous directories.
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## OpenRC-0.19
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This version adds a net-online service. By default, this
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service will check all known network interfaces for a configured
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interface or a carrier. It will register as started only when all
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interfaces are configured and there is at least a carrier on one
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interface. The behaviour of this service can be modified in
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/etc/conf.d/net-online.
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Currently, this only works on Linux, but if anyone wants to port to
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*bsd, that would be welcomed.
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## OpenRC-0.18.3
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Modern Linux systems expect /etc/mtab to be a symbolic link to
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/proc/self/mounts. Reasons for this change include support for mount
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namespaces, which will not work if /etc/mtab is a file.
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By default, the mtab service enforces this on each reboot.
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If you find that this breaks your system in some way, please do the
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following:
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- Set mtab_is_file=yes in /etc/conf.d/mtab.
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- Restart mtab. This will recreate the /etc/mtab file.
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- Check for an issue on https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues
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explaining why you need /etc/mtab to be a file. If there isn't one,
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please open one and explain in detail why you need this to be a file.
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If there is one, please add your comments to it. Please give concrete
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examples of why it is important that /etc/mtab be a file instead of a
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symbolic link. Those comments will be taken into consideration for how
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long to keep supporting mtab as a file or when the support can be
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removed.
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## OpenRC-0.18
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The behaviour of localmount and netmount in this version is changing. In
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the past, these services always started successfully. In this version,
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they will be able to fail if file systems they mount fail to mount. If
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you have file systems listed in fstab which should not be mounted at
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boot time, make sure to add noauto to the mount options. If you have
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file systems that you want to attempt to mount at boot time but failure
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should be allowed, add nofail to the mount options for these file
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systems in fstab.
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## OpenRC-0.14
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The binfmt service, which registers misc binary formats with the Linux
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kernel, has been separated from the procfs service. This service will be
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automatically added to the boot runlevel for new Linux installs. When
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you upgrade, you will need to use rc-update to add it to your boot
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runlevel.
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The procfs service no longer automounts the deprecated usbfs and
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usbdevfs file systems. Nothing should be using usbdevfs any longer, and
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if you still need usbfs it can be added to fstab.
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Related to the above change, the procfs service no longer attempts to
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modprobe the usbcore module. If your device manager does not load it,
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you will need to configure the modules service to do so.
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The override order of binfmt.d and tmpfiles.d directories has been
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changed to match systemd. Files in /run/binfmt.d and /run/tmpfiles.d
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override their /usr/lib counterparts, and files in the /etc counterparts
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override both /usr/lib and /run.
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## OpenRC-0.13.2
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A chroot variable has been added to the service script variables.
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This fixes the support for running a service in a chroot.
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This is documented in man 8 openrc-run.
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The netmount service now mounts nfs file systems.
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This change was made to correct a fix for an earlier bug.
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## OpenRC-0.13
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/sbin/rc was renamed to /sbin/openrc and /sbin/runscript was renamed to
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/sbin/openrc-run due to naming conflicts with other software.
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Backward compatible symbolic links are currently in place so your
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system will keep working if you are using the old names; however, it is
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strongly advised that you migrate to the new names because the symbolic
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links will be removed in the future.
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Warnings have been added to assist with this migration; however, due to the
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level of noise they produce, they only appear in verbose mode in this release.
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The devfs script now handles the initial mounting and setup of the
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/dev directory. If /dev has already been mounted by the kernel or an
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initramfs, devfs will remount /dev with the correct mount options
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instead of mounting a second /dev over the existing mount point.
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It attempts to mount /dev from fstab first if an entry exists there. If
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it doesn't it attempts to mount devtmpfs if it is configured in the
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kernel. If not, it attempts to mount tmpfs.
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If none of these is available, an error message is displayed and static
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/dev is assumed.
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## OpenRC-0.12
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The net.* scripts, originally from Gentoo Linux, have
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been removed. If you need these scripts, look for a package called
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netifrc, which is maintained by them.
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