[gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron

[gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron

[Frank Thieme]

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Hi!

I'm using fcron which is very nice, but every time I do an 'emerge
--update system' it wants to install dcron. How can I stop emerge from
doing this? It's really annoying...

Bye...Frank

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Re: [gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron

[William McArthur]

Frank Thieme wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using fcron which is very nice, but every time I do an 'emerge
> --update system' it wants to install dcron. How can I stop emerge from
> doing this? It's really annoying...
> 
> Bye...Frank

Frank,
the whole cron system got a reworking. While it wasn't broken it is now 
cleaner. If you do:

emerge sys-apps/fcron

your problem should go away. (fcron moved from app-admin to sys-apps)

I'm not a cron expert so I could have the details wrong.

Sandy McArthur

Re: [gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron

[Kevin Hayes]

On Fri, 3 May 2002 22:22:24 +0200
Frank Thieme <fthieme@gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm using fcron which is very nice, but every time I do an 'emerge
> --update system' it wants to install dcron. How can I stop emerge from
> doing this? It's really annoying...
> 
> Bye...Frank

Have a similar problem for packages other than dcron, the workaround
I use is to modify /usr/portage/profiles/default-xxx/packages.
It works fine, but "packages" gets overwritten every time you do a 
rsync. I just save my "packages" file and copy it back every time
I rsync, checking that the original packages file hasn't been
changed with the rsync,

There has to be a better way, but thats what i'm doing right now.

-- 
Kevin Hayes

Re: [gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 05:33, Kevin Hayes wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2002 22:22:24 +0200
>
> There has to be a better way, but thats what i'm doing right now.

Instead of making /etc/make.profile a symlink to the profile 
directory, make it a directory. In this directory make a symlink to 
every file in the profile. Remove the links of those files you want 
to change, copy them, and edit them. They will not get overwritten.

Paul

ps. a diff once in a while to check for differences that are not 
nescesarry is adviseable.

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Paul de Vrieze
Junior Researcher
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
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