Steve Gordon wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "seth vidal" <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" >> <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: sgordon@xxxxxxxxxx >> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:07:00 PM >> Subject: Re: dnf installs cron.hourly >> >> On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:58:33 -0400 (EDT) >> Steve Gordon <sgordon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" >> > > <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 >> > > 11:48:41 AM Subject: Re: dnf installs cron.hourly >> > > >> > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:45:03AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: >> > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Miloslav Trmač >> > > > <mitr@xxxxxxxx> >> > > > wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange >> > > > > <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > > > > wrote: >> > > > > > Users shouldn't have to go searching out that kind of thing >> > > > > > in >> > > > > > a >> > > > > > separate package IMHO, it could just be part of stock yum >> > > > > > install. >> > > > > > If it needs to be optional a config param would suffice, >> > > > > > rather than the big hammer of installing/uninstalling extra >> > > > > > RPM to enable/ >> > > > > > disable a feature. >> > > > > >> > > > > Yeah, we don't generally do configuration by package >> > > > > installation/uninstallation. >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > More to the point, >> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Starting_services_by_default >> > > >> > > That's about starting system services by default though, so isn't >> > > directly relevant to the question of whether cron jobs are >> > > allowed >> > > to be enabled by default. Do we have any package docs about cron >> > > job enablement ? I couldn't find any in my search attempts. >> > > >> > > Daniel >> > >> > The list of files sitting in my /etc/cron.*/ directories would >> > certainly indicate that even if there is such a rule it is being >> > ignored. Not that I necessarily have a problem with that given the >> > jobs that are there (mlocate, cups, logrotate, man-db are all >> > examples I don't remember setting up myself). >> > >> >> To be fair - none of those call out to the network. >> >> they all act on things locally. > > Right, but the packaging guidelines don't seem to mention whether you should > enable cron jobs in packages by default (or not) at all - let alone provide > enough detail to specify what types of jobs it's appropriate for. I'd agree > with Jon's comment that there is probably some clarification required in the > guidelines here. > > Steve Almost makes me wonder if a system like that on my android is needed, where it tells me when I install that the app may use services that cost me money. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
