[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Ionut Biru]

On 04/22/2011 12:11 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
> Ionut Biru wrote:
>> On 04/21/2011 02:18 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
>>> Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:48:04 +0200
>>> schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase<sh at lutzhaase.com>:
>>>
>>>> I second this suggestion. cronie upstream isn't dead at all. cronie
>>>> is a drop-in unlike fcron which was favored earlier.
>>>
>>> Is it such a drop-in like the new dcron when dcron upstream was adopted
>>> by this Arch user?
>>>
>>> Better look at the features and the use cases (don't only think of some
>>> 24/7 servers, but also think of the desktop users) and not at some small
>>> differences in the crontab syntax. It's definitely not such a big work
>>> to re-adjust a few crontab entries if this is necessary at all. And this
>>> work has to be done only once and can probably be done with sed.
>>>
>>
>> i think you are not understanding the process.
>>
>> if cronie is moved in core, it won't have a replaces=dcron. Only new
>> installations will get cronie by default instead of dcron.
>>
>
> How is that possible? Are you saying that the broken dcron will stay in
> core and there will two packages for cron?
> Otherwise i dont understand how it wont be replaced (for all users).
>


if this will happen, the steps are very simple
1) remove dcron from core
2) add cronie/fcron to core in base group and depending on the package, 
it might have conflicts=dcron but not replaces

this way the existent systems will still have a "working" cron and new 
installations will have the new cron


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Ionuț