Gentoo openrc-0.11.5.ebuild which doesn’t mandate migrating to /run

The general consensus amongst distributions is that requiring /var/run to be moved to /run is a good thing(tm) – or, at least, a battle not worth fighting.

I note that the “you have to pre-mount the partition from an initrd” which is now being applied to /usr doesn’t appear to apply to /var (and thank goodness no-one is arguing that /var also has to be conjoined with the root partition)…

One of the greatest strengths of Linux is the ability to do things the way you feel is right – and there’s an awful lot of legacy software with still relies upon the existence of /var/run, and I’m just not keen on having yet another mandatory root-directory entry.

So, here is a patch which will create a custom openrc-0.11.5 ebuild in a (pre-existing) /usr/local/portage repository. As a bonus, it fixes a cosmetic bug when clearing out /var/run on boot.

diff -urx Manifest --unidirectional-new-file /usr/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-bootmisc.in.patch /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-bootmisc.in.patch
--- /usr/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-bootmisc.in.patch  1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-bootmisc.in.patch    2012-11-21 23:14:14.732424125 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- init.d/bootmisc.in.dist    2012-11-21 22:27:04.431229165 +0000
++++ init.d/bootmisc.in 2012-11-21 22:28:29.844249885 +0000
+@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
+                       case "$x" in
+                               *.pid)
+                                       start-stop-daemon --test --quiet \
+-                                      --stop --pidfile "$x" && continue
++                                      --stop --pidfile "$x" >/dev/null 2>&1 && continue
+                               ;;
+                       esac
+                       rm -f -- "$x"
diff -urx Manifest --unidirectional-new-file /usr/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-init.sh.Linux.in.patch /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-init.sh.Linux.in.patch
--- /usr/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-init.sh.Linux.in.patch     1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-init.sh.Linux.in.patch       2012-11-21 23:14:14.699092258 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+--- sh/init.sh.Linux.in.dist   2012-11-21 21:59:46.133254024 +0000
++++ sh/init.sh.Linux.in        2012-11-21 22:03:42.763725042 +0000
+@@ -3,6 +3,62 @@
+ # Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
+ # Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
+ 
++# This basically mounts $RC_SVCDIR as a ramdisk.
++# The tricky part is finding something our kernel supports
++# tmpfs and ramfs are easy, so force one or the other.
++svcdir_restorecon()
++{
++      local rc=0
++      if [ -x /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled -a -c /selinux/null ] &&
++        selinuxenabled; then
++              restorecon $RC_SVCDIR
++              rc=$?
++      fi
++      return $rc
++}
++
++mount_svcdir()
++{
++      # mount from fstab if we can
++      fstabinfo --mount "$RC_SVCDIR" && return 0
++
++      local fs= fsopts="-o rw,noexec,nodev,nosuid"
++      local svcsize=${rc_svcsize:-1024}
++
++      # Some buggy kernels report tmpfs even when not present :(
++      if grep -Eq "[[:space:]]+tmpfs$" /proc/filesystems; then
++              local tmpfsopts="${fsopts},mode=755,size=${svcsize}k"
++              mount -n -t tmpfs $tmpfsopts rc-svcdir "$RC_SVCDIR"
++              if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
++                      svcdir_restorecon
++                      [ $? -eq 0 ] && return 0
++              fi
++      fi
++
++      if grep -Eq "[[:space:]]+ramfs$" /proc/filesystems; then
++              fs="ramfs"
++              # ramfs has no special options
++      elif [ -e /dev/ram0 ] \
++              && grep -Eq "[[:space:]]+ext2$" /proc/filesystems; then
++              devdir="/dev/ram0"
++              fs="ext2"
++              dd if=/dev/zero of="$devdir" bs=1k count="$svcsize"
++              mkfs -t "$fs" -i 1024 -vm0 "$devdir" "$svcsize"
++      else
++              echo
++              eerror "OpenRC requires tmpfs, ramfs or a ramdisk + ext2"
++              eerror "compiled into the kernel"
++              echo
++              return 1
++      fi
++
++      mount -n -t "$fs" $fsopts rc-svcdir "$RC_SVCDIR"
++      if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
++              svcdir_restorecon
++              [ $? -eq 0 ] && return 0
++      fi
++}
++
+ . "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/sh/functions.sh
+ [ -r /etc/rc.conf ] && . /etc/rc.conf
+ 
+@@ -46,29 +102,34 @@
+               fi
+               mkdir /run
+       else
+-              eerror "The /run directory does not exist. Unable to continue."
+-              return 1
++              #eerror "The /run directory does not exist. Unable to continue."
++              #return 1
++              :
+       fi
+ fi
+ 
+-if [ "$sys" = VSERVER ]; then
+-      rm -rf /run/*
+-elif ! mountinfo -q /run; then
+-      ebegin "Mounting /run"
+-      rc=0
+-      if ! fstabinfo --mount /run; then
+-              mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0755,nosuid,nodev tmpfs /run
+-              rc=$?
+-      fi
+-      if [ $rc != 0 ]; then
+-              eerror "Unable to mount tmpfs on /run."
+-              eerror "Can't continue."
+-              exit 1
++if [ -d /run ]; then
++      if [ "$sys" = VSERVER ]; then
++              rm -rf /run/*
++      elif ! mountinfo -q /run; then
++              ebegin "Mounting /run"
++              rc=0
++              if ! fstabinfo --mount /run; then
++                      mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0755,nosuid,nodev tmpfs /run
++                      rc=$?
++              fi
++              if [ $rc != 0 ]; then
++                      eerror "Unable to mount tmpfs on /run."
++                      eerror "Can't continue."
++                      exit 1
++              fi
+       fi
++      checkpath -d -m 0775 -o root:uucp /run/lock
++else
++      checkpath -d -m 0775 -o root:uucp /var/lock
+ fi
+ 
+ checkpath -d $RC_SVCDIR
+-checkpath -d -m 0775 -o root:uucp /run/lock
+ 
+ # Try to mount xenfs as early as possible, otherwise rc_sys() will always
+ # return RC_SYS_XENU and will think that we are in a domU while it's not.
+@@ -80,9 +141,4 @@
+       eend $?
+ fi
+ 
+-if [ -e "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/cache/deptree ]; then
+-      cp -p "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/cache/* "$RC_SVCDIR" 2>/dev/null
+-fi
+-
+-echo sysinit >"$RC_SVCDIR"/softlevel
+-exit 0
++. "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/sh/init-common-post.sh
diff -urx Manifest --unidirectional-new-file /usr/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-rc.h.in.patch /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-rc.h.in.patch
--- /usr/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-rc.h.in.patch      1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/openrc/files/openrc-0.11.5-rc.h.in.patch        2012-11-21 23:14:14.772422358 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- src/librc/rc.h.in.dist     2012-11-20 20:21:51.043277551 +0000
++++ src/librc/rc.h.in  2012-11-20 20:22:12.610081532 +0000
+@@ -39,8 +39,10 @@
+ #define RC_LIBEXECDIR           "@LIBEXECDIR@"
+ #if defined(PREFIX)
+ #define RC_SVCDIR               RC_LIBEXECDIR "/init.d"
++/*
+ #elif defined(__linux__)
+ #define RC_SVCDIR               "@PREFIX@/run/openrc"
++ */
+ #else
+ #define RC_SVCDIR               RC_LIBEXECDIR "/init.d"
+ #endif
diff -urx Manifest --unidirectional-new-file /usr/portage/sys-apps/openrc/openrc-0.11.5.ebuild /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/openrc/openrc-0.11.5.ebuild
--- /usr/portage/sys-apps/openrc/openrc-0.11.5.ebuild   2012-11-19 23:31:30.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/openrc/openrc-0.11.5.ebuild     2012-11-22 00:10:20.809626760 +0000
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 LICENSE="BSD-2"
 SLOT="0"
 IUSE="debug elibc_glibc ncurses pam newnet prefix selinux static-libs unicode
-       kernel_linux kernel_FreeBSD"
+       +varrun kernel_linux kernel_FreeBSD"
 
 RDEPEND="virtual/init
        kernel_FreeBSD? ( || ( >=sys-freebsd/freebsd-ubin-9.0_rc sys-process/fuser-bsd ) )
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@
                sed -i "/^GITVER[[:space:]]*=/s:=.*:=${ver}:" mk/git.mk || die
        fi
 
+       if use varrun ; then
+               epatch "${FILESDIR}/openrc-0.11.5-rc.h.in.patch" || die "rc.h.in epatch failed"
+               epatch "${FILESDIR}/openrc-0.11.5-init.sh.Linux.in.patch" || die "init.sh.Linux.in epatch failed"
+       fi
+       epatch "${FILESDIR}/openrc-0.11.5-bootmisc.in.patch" || die "bootmisc.in epatch failed"
        # Allow user patches to be applied without modifying the ebuild
        epatch_user
 }