Bug 28606

Summary:	modutils requires vixie-cron
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Binand Sethumadhavan <binand>
Component:	modutils	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	dr, rvokal
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Description Binand Sethumadhavan 2001-02-21 14:14:04 UTC

rpm -q --whatrequires vixie-cron tells me that modutils-2.3.9-6
requires it. IMHO, that is bad - it ties users to one particular cron
implementation. I encountered this while trying to install dillon-cron
on my system.

It would be nice if vixie-cron provided a virtual package like
sendmail/apache etc. do, and other packages used that one.

On second thoughts, why does modutils require a cron daemon at all?
None of the other packages that put files in /etc/cron.* directories
has this requirement (and there are six of them in total on my minimal
RHL 6.2 installation).

Comment 1 Daniel Roesen 2001-02-21 15:21:08 UTC

Having a crond is compulsary for auto-removal of unused kernel modules (the kmod
cron job). But I agree that there should be a virtual package "crond".

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-21 16:51:34 UTC

We may add a virtual package if we ship a different cron daemon anywhere.

In any case, the requirement is not going away unless the cron script does.

Comment 3 Binand Sethumadhavan 2001-02-21 16:59:53 UTC

Agreed, but having a cron daemon is also compulsory for tmpwatch etc. but they
don't have this additional dependency. And anyway, they needn't be tied to
one particular cron implementation.