[Bug 870694] excessive hourly cron job

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870694

Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> ---
Thanks for bringing this up - for long I was not completely happy with
the cronjob hack either but hadn't found time to look into a better solution
yet.

Paul: I wonder why it failed for you?  Is above the complete cron mail?

Let me make a few comments on the current cronjob:

- it was indeed introduced because running in %post slowed down
  installation of ghc-*-devel very considerably when there are many libs
  installed/being installed

- the cronjob runs as root which is also highly undesirable

- the cronjob is hourly but basically uses 0 cpu unless
  any ghc-*-devel have been newly installed/updated.

I will move to using /var/lib/rpm-state/ghc/ as soon as possible.
Running once per rpm transaction in %posttrans should be no problem.

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