How to pack cron jobs?

[Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus)]

Patrice Dumas пишет:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:42:25AM +0300, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) wrote:
>> Patrice Dumas пишет:
>>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 08:46:20PM +0300, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) wrote:
>>>> Great news. In this case really may be best solution add /etc/cron.d  
>>>> into crontab package?
>>> I don't think so, at least if  cronie directly uses files in /etc/cron.d.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pat
>>>
>> AFIAK cronie do not use files from it, cronie only provide service to  
>> handle jobs from this directory. And fcron will do the same.
> 
> It is advertized in the crond man page, so I think it is directly done
> by cronie, (and I don't know where it would be configured otherwise).
I can't find any mention of cron.d in man of crond.
$ rpm -q cronie
cronie-1.0-7.fc9.i386

Furthermore, as mentioned above, fcron will does the same in short time.
> 
>> I thing in any way "Require crontabs" must be in both crons.
> 
> Not in the main package.
Not in main package? Is there any subpackage of crontab in Fedora??
$ repoquery 'crontab*'
crontabs-0:1.10-19.fc9.noarch

Or you suppose create new one?
> User may want another crontab than the fedora
> one.
Off course. What to obstruct the create another one to replace fedora 
variant? Do not see any problem there.

>> Furthermore if /etc/cron.d will be included into both crons, do not make  
>> this conflicts (if both must be installed on the same machine off 
>> course)??
> 
> Dir ownership doesn't lead to conflict, on the contrary, it is a rather
> natural way to present virtual provides (as long as it is in /etc).
> 
> --
> Pat
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