> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 16:44:42 +0100
> From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]>
> To: BLFS Development List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] libpapersize, /etc/libpaper.d, runparts [ re #5454 ]
>
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 12:48:59AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 05:56:34PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > > Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  So, should I just remove /etc/papersize ?
> > > 
> > > I don't think so.  From the man page:
> > > 
> > > run-parts runs all the executable files named within constraints described
> > > below, found in directory directory.  Other files and directories are
> > > silently ignored.
> > > 
> > > Since there are no options, it would be easy to create a script to do
> > > run-parts.  What does ${PAPERDIR} resolve to?
> > > 
> > >   -- Bruce
> > > 
> >  /etc/libpaper.d/
> > 
>  Looking at akhiezer's suggestion (from dcron), I checked at github
> and the license is GPL (version not mentioned).  So, easy enough to
> drop in with added attribution.
>
>  BUT - where to put it ?
>
> 1. Put it at downloads.linuxfromscratch.org (like deb2targz.tar.bz2
> and rpm2targz.tar.bz2) and make a note within libpaper that it
> should be installed in /usr/bin and made executable)
>
> 2. Add it to the book in its own right (so that it can be indexed).
> I suppose it might be generally useful to somebody.  I supposed it
> would go into chapter 11, General Utilities.
>
> 3. Something else that I haven't thought of ?
>
>  N.B. now that I have seen the version akhiezer kindly pointed to,
> anything I came up with would not be clean, it would be a derived
> work and therefore subject to the GPL (which is fine by me).  So,
> I see no benefit in attempting to produce our own version.
>


Apols for not going and checking, but ... isn't there some 'run-parts' or
so that's part of the cron variant that's in blfs (fcron 3.x, ch.12 blfs
7.5, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.5/general/fcron.html );
I guess maybe not, if your system isn't picking it up.



akh





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