[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 08/04/11 07:16, Heiko Baums wrote:
>
>> But let's try to get objective again.
>>
>
> No need.   A new cron for [core] has to pass only one condition...  :)
>
> 1) a developer is willing to maintain it.
>
> So far that seems to be Thomas and fcron.
>
>
> Anyway, I recall mention in our bug report of a patch being submitted
> upstream that fixed the dcron timing issue.  Would this be "solved" - at
> least in the short term - if we got a copy of that patch and fixed dcron?
>
> Allan
>

My only concern with the continued use of dcron is the fact that this bug
took well over a year to be fixed, and we don't know if it is fixed with the
patch. As for finding a maintainer, I hope that would not be too difficult,
cronie and fcron are not complex packages.