It is unclear how boot time console logging should be handled when used with OpenRC. Previously there was a setting RC_BOOTLOG in /etc/conf.d/rc, together with a verbose comment about this. The migration guide tells you that this file is deprecated, and that all settings should me migrated to the corresponding settings in /etc/rc.conf. So now one can consider these options: 1. leave RC_BOOTLOG in /etc/conf.d/rc, as there is no corresponding setting 2. move RC_BOOTLOG to /etc/rc.conf, so one can remove /etc/conf.d/rc 3. move and rename to rc_bootlog, as all other options are lower case now 4. set rc_logger and assume it still needs app-admin/showconsole 5. set rc_logger and unmerge app-admin/showconsole, assuming it's unnecessary I haven't tried out these cases, but from looking at the code of showconsole, I'd assume either 2 or 5 would be the correct interpretation. I would like to see a section in the migration guide, clarifying the situation.
openrc handles all of the logging internally so there's no need for the /dev hacks that showconsole employed. unmerge the package as it is no longer needed.
# rc_logger launches a logging daemon to log the entire rc process to # /var/log/rc.log rc_logger="NO" A section on that could be added to the migration guide..
Thanks for the solutions; fixed in CVS.
