[Pulp-list] Repo Sync Scheduling

[Mike McCune]

On 06/16/2010 01:34 PM, Jason Dobies wrote:
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> On 06/16/2010 12:52 PM, Jason L Connor wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:44 -0400, Jason Dobies wrote:
>>> Anyone have any ideas?
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>> Todd Sanders passed this library along.
>> We should definitely investigate it:
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-crontab/
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> FYI, we talked this through a bit in the chat room.
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> I'm going to change the cron handling to use a single file instead of
> one per repo and use the python crontab library to manipulate it. This
> way, during installation we just have to drop the cron.d file out there
> and chown it to apache.
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> I'll start on this tonight and see how it goes.
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I like this since the admin will be able to easily look at one file in 
/etc/cron.d/ to see when the syncs are scheduled and we are reusing the 
cron infrastructure.

Mike