Description
Currently systools make_tar renames the boot script to start.boot from relname.boot. It can be confusing that unless you build a tarball and unpack it you won't be able to do certain thing like install/upgrade with release_handler since it requires the name be start.
I created an issue in the OTP bug tracker: https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-859 It has been a couple months with no response so I'll have to try poking people to get an answer.
One option is to do nothing. Or do what Jose did in mix release and always rename to start.boot. This would mean no longer using systools:make_tar when running tar but that isn't much of a loss since we already have to unpack the tar and repackage it to include overlay shit.
I guess another would be to find out if OTP team would accept a patch to systools to not only support the boot file always being named start but also to have a way to specify the overlay files to include when running make_tar so we don't have to repackage it.