About cron files and rpmlint

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Without commenting on the general case, I think that in the specific case
> the explanation applies. If one wants to add a new directory to the tmpwatch
> list, thus modifying the file, and then we (oh for example) change the
> location of /usr/sbin/tmpwatch, on update either the new directory will be
> lost or else the whole thing will break (depending on whether the file is
> noreplace).

If one wants to run tmpwatch on a different directory, it is easiest
to set up a separate cron entry (either in /etc/cron.daily, or in
users' crontab); this avoids the issue.

> That said, I believe the plan is to eventually get rid of the systemwide
> tmpwatch -- see the comments on this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866693
Yet nobody bothered to tell the tmpwatch maintainer about "the plan"...

Anyway, the /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch executable-config-file is gone in
rawhide, based on a different bug report.
    Mirek