[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 27.04.2011 16:19, schrieb Ray Kohler:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> [2011-04-26 22:24:31 +0200] Gaetan Bisson:
>>> The cronie package in [testing] aims at seamlessly replacing dcron.
>>
>> Version 1.4.7-5 features several packaging improvements:
>> - use anacron for daily/weekly/monthly jobs
>> - use run-parts rather than ad-hoc script
>> - use vanilla configuration files
>>
>> Downside: after upgrading from 1.4.7-4, you will need to restart crond.
>> (The configuration must be reloaded so that run-parts is used.)
>>
>> Please test and signoff.
> 
> The file /etc/crontab must exist, even if it's empty, or inotify
> support will be disabled at runtime.

I would consider this an upstream bug that should be reported. inotify
is perfectly capable of handling this situation (as it is done in 'tail
-F' for example).

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