diff --git a/templates/hal/files/hal b/templates/hal/files/hal
deleted file mode 100644
index 637e5e0153d..00000000000
--- a/templates/hal/files/hal
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# PROVIDE: hal
-# REQUIRE: DAEMON dbus
-# KEYWORD: shutdown
-
-. /etc/rc.subr
-
-name="hal"
-rcvar=$name
-command="/usr/sbin/hald"
-pidfile="/var/run/hald/pid"
-start_precmd=hal_prestart
-
-hal_prestart() {
-	dirs="/var/run/hald /var/cache/hald"
-	for d in ${dirs}; do
-		if [ ! -d ${d} ]; then
-			mkdir ${d}
-			chmod 0755 ${d}
-			chown hal:hal ${d}
-		fi
-	done
-	for f in hald-local hald-runner; do
-		if [ ! -x /var/run/hald/${f} ]; then
-			touch /var/run/hald/${f}
-		fi
-	done
-}
-
-load_rc_config $name
-run_rc_command "$1"
diff --git a/templates/hal/files/hal.rc b/templates/hal/files/hal.rc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e3669310a13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/hal/files/hal.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/sbin/runscript
+
+command=/usr/sbin/hald
+pidfile=/var/run/hald/pid
+name="HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)"
+
+depend()
+{
+	need dbus
+}
diff --git a/templates/hal/template b/templates/hal/template
index 53a5c4527e3..049e8692ba2 100644
--- a/templates/hal/template
+++ b/templates/hal/template
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'hal'
 pkgname=hal
 version=0.5.12rc1
+revision=1
 distfiles="http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-$version.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args="--enable-man-pages --enable-console-kit --enable-policy-kit
@@ -16,6 +17,8 @@ long_desc="
 
 conf_files="/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
  /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi"
+openrc_services="hal default"
+triggers="openrc-service"
 
 Add_dependency full glibc
 Add_dependency full udev
@@ -33,11 +36,12 @@ Add_dependency full dmidecode
 Add_dependency build pkg-config
 Add_dependency build libsmbios
 Add_dependency run libsmbios-utils
+Add_dependency run OpenRC
 
 post_install()
 {
 	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/var
-	install -D -m755 ${FILESDIR}/hal ${DESTDIR}/etc/rc.d/hal
+	install -D -m755 ${FILESDIR}/hal.rc ${DESTDIR}/etc/init.d/hal
 	install -D -m644 ${FILESDIR}/10-keymap.fdi \
 		${DESTDIR}/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi
 }