OpenRC README ============= OpenRC is a dependency-based init system that works with the system-provided init program, normally `/sbin/init`. ## building and installing OpenRC uses the [meson](http://mesonbuild.com) build system, so use the usual methods for this build system to build and install. The old build system is still available for the 0.44.x branch, but it is considered deprecated and will be removed. The previous documentation is below. ## Installation (historical) OpenRC requires GNU make. Once you have GNU Make installed, the default OpenRC installation can be executed using this command: `make install` ## Configuration (historical) You may wish to configure the installation by passing one or more of the below arguments to the make command ``` PROGLDFLAGS=-static LIBNAME=lib64 DESTDIR=/tmp/openrc-image MKBASHCOMP=no MKNET=no MKPAM=pam MKPREFIX=yes MKPKGCONFIG=no MKSELINUX=yes MKSTATICLIBS=no MKSYSVINIT=yes MKTERMCAP=ncurses MKTERMCAP=termcap MKZSHCOMP=no PKG_PREFIX=/usr/pkg LOCAL_PREFIX=/usr/local PREFIX=/usr/local BRANDING=\"Gentoo/$(uname -s)\" SH=/bin/sh ``` ## Notes We don't support building a static OpenRC with PAM. You may need to use `PROGLDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bstatic` on glibc instead of just `-static` (This is now handled by the meson build system). If you are building OpenRC for a Gentoo Prefix installation, add `MKPREFIX=yes` (this is not supported in the meson build currently, but patches are welcome). `PKG_PREFIX` should be set to where packages install to by default. `LOCAL_PREFIX` should be set to where user maintained packages are. Only set `LOCAL_PREFIX` if different from `PKG_PREFIX`. `PREFIX` should be set when OpenRC is not installed to /. 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 distributions. 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. ## Discussions We are testing [discussions](https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/discussions), so feel free to open topics there. ## Reporting Bugs Please report bugs on our [bug tracker](http://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues). If you can contribute code , please feel free to do so by opening [pull requests](https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pulls). ## IRC Channel We have an official irc channel, #openrc on the libera network. Please connect your irc client to irc.libera.chat and join #openrc on that network.