On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, at 7:13 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Fr, 12.04.19 11:35, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > (dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > Interestingly I think Google Chrome needs this when it installs, > > > though it seems nonsensical to me. (Chrome is installed by about 50% > > > of our users given some informal stats, so writing it off would be > > > shooting ourselves in the foot.) That's something the Workstation > > > folks may want to work with them to fix in a more systemd-ish way. > > > > Chrome doesn't require atd explicitly (nor is it pulled in by any of its > > dependencies). > > > > It does use it in %post to sneak in a cron job to to add a repo config > > file and its GPG key trust behind your back: > > > > service atd start > > echo "sh /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome" | at now + 2 minute > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > > So, actually not having atd installed won't break Chrome as it will > > just ignore the 'at' command execution error due to 'exit 0' a few > > lines below it. > > Just out of curiosity, why does a web browser need a daily chrome job? Chrome needs a cron job kept in time with chrony of course! I am not 100% certain on this but I am pretty sure it's because of RPM and GPG. librpm stores the keys in the rpmdb, and it's not supported to import the keys during a "transaction". Whereas at least libdnf uses /etc/pki/rpm-gpg and imports the keys before doing anything else; see also https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/issues/43 But I think Chrome is trying to support multiple librpm-based tools with a single package. The model of "add a repository with GPG key" is not really standardized across rpm-based distributions. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
