[Bug 428007] Package review: cronie
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Summary: Package review: cronie
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428007
------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr 2008-01-11 10:54 EST -------
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #12)
> > I have some comments on upstream.
> > * I think it would be better to isolate crond.pam, crond.sysconfig
> > vixie-cron.init (renamed cronie.init) in something like a contrib
> > directory and not install them, they are platform specific.
>
> IMO contrib/ directories are usually for stuff contributors submit but upstream
> doesn't plan to support (which clearly is not the case here). I'd add e.g.
> --with-pam and --with-sysvinit to configure.ac and install the files if the user
> wants it. Marcela, shout if you want help with that.
Yes, that would be another possibility. And indeed contrib is a bad
name for a directory holding those files. Maybe data or utils?
In any case they shouldn't be installed in the default case since
they are too platform dependent.
> > * The fact that vixie-cron.init and crond.sysconfig appear in the
> > distribution is complete magic to me
>
> What do you mean?
I may have missed something but they are not in any variable in Makefile.am
nor in EXTRA_DIST...
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