[Fedora-packaging] Packaging guidelines for packaging Cron Jobs in the distribution

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 25.2.2013 12:41, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" napsal(a):
> Greetings
>
> I have been looking into cron jobs in the distribution and I noticed 
> that there dont seem to be any packaging guidelines for packaging cron 
> jobs in the distribution.
>
> More or less every package that ships cron jobs does not require 
> Cronie which arguably it should, however only few packages actually 
> strictly need cron ( logwatch,leafnote etc ) while the majority of 
> them are more or less small administration task that can be triggered 
> manually by the user/administrator thus not strictly required by the 
> component.
>
> Before I start providing patches to fix this I need to know what is 
> the correct way to move forward as in...
>
> Should the requirement on Cronie be added to the spec file?
>
> or
>
> Should those cron-jobs be package in a separate sub package which 
> would depend on Cronie?
>

Or should all crons provide some common virtual provide?

Vít


> Thanks
>             JBG
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