Hi Adam,
On 14/04/2019 16:22, Adam Borowski wrote:
Package: ddupdate
Version: 0.6.2-1
Severity: normal
Hi!
The auto-update functionality is for some reason systemd only, despite not
actually using any systemd features. This makes it broken on any other
init/rc system for no gain.
Could you please convert the .service/.timer to a init script and/or cron
job?
Anything is possible but... in this case ddupdate installs as a user
program without anything running as root. Things like cron or init
scripts are requires root permissions, which IMHO is bad enough to not
convert current timer etc. And, cron jobs are nowhere as flexible as
systemd timers.
OTOH, it would of course be possible to add alternative solutions like
cron jobs to the package. This would requires patches to
ddupdate-config, but should otherwise be trivial. But to be honest, I'm
more in a "patches welcome" state on this -- I'm just not motivated to
make such fixes myself.
--alec
