Bug 500722

Summary:	Drop the cron job
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jesse Keating <jkeating>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dcantrell, ffesti, jnovy, mads, n3npq, pmatilai, poelstra
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Description Jesse Keating 2009-05-13 20:02:52 UTC

rpm requires crontabs in order to drop a cron job in.  crontabs requires cronie, which requires an smtp server.  If it weren't for this, we'd have a better chance at a smtp server less and cron less system.  Please consider the usefulness of the cron job, and either split it out into a subpackage, put it in one of our other packages that have our default cron jobs, or just drop it all together.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2009-05-14 06:20:07 UTC

So rpm shouldn't use cron because cronie depends on smtpd?!?

That kinda doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Why not split smptd from cronie instead?

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2009-05-14 08:02:21 UTC

The cronjob has been split into rpm-cron sub-package in rpm-4.7.0-4.fc12.

Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2009-08-17 11:00:20 UTC

*** Bug 517810 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***