Le jeudi 24 janvier 2013 à 17:30 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" a écrit : > On 01/24/2013 04:28 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Tomas Mraz (tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > >> On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:03 +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I have tried to migrating the cron jobs of the inn package to systemd timers. > >>> Unfortunately, I have got the following problem. After a install/update of the > >>> package the timer will only start the service unit only once time. The service > >>> was not started after the configure period was expired. But when I have restart > >>> the system, it's works as expected. > >>> > >>> So I would to ask, what I have to concern when I want to migrate to systemd timers. > >> I think that massive migration of services from cron to systemd timers > >> is very premature and should be actively at least discouraged by > >> packaging directives. > > I'm somewhat skeptical of the benefit of migration in general. I'm really > > skeptical that the place you start reducing the dependency load is inn. > > I have started looking into migration of cron jobs to native systemd > time units as I mentioned I would do with fesco on the last meeting. > > Out of the total 99 cron job the distribution ship there are 38 which > come with service related packages thus might be applicable to migration > from my pov the rest should just be left as is. > > What surprised me the most was that none of those components packages > depended on cron which was the same thing with rsyslog when I looked > into that which is what I expected they would do. > > Maybe it's just me but is there not something more broken/alarming with > that or is just me and this is just acceptable from packaging standpoint? >From a packaging point of view, they should depend on crontabs, because this is the package that provides /etc/cron.daily/ among others. ( ie https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UnownedDirectories ) And crontabs pull cronie. Now, I am not sure that all packages work correctly out of the box without cron. Mlocate for example kinda need it ( as the database is not updated without it, so that's less useful.. ) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
