Hi Gian, thanks for your patches and sorry for the long delay, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:54:05PM +0200, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: > unarchive 587597 > reopen 587597 > thanks > > The cron.daily snippet was in place for systems that aren't always > on, so that apticron can be invoked by anacron (that doesn't run > snippets in /etc/cron.d). The problem reported by the OP wasn't > strictly due to the existence of /etc/cron.daily/apticron, but > rather to the fact that during the commit for fixing #574461 the > '--cron' parameter has gone missed. Well... ok, the existence of > /etc/cron.d/apticron is someway relevant :) > Attached you can find a ( bundle of ) patch(es) that restores > support for anacron. [0] > > Anyway I have to admit that having both /etc/cron.d/apticron and > /etc/cron.daily/apticron can be confusing, so I've attached a > different set of patches. [1] > This second bundle of patches modifies the cron.d snippet in order > to run apticron once a hour. This way, a system that isn't up 24h a > day get a chance to run apticron during its "awakening hours". If > you choose this solution, I suggest to also fill a NEWS entry. > > Please also note that both bundles should fix the just reopened > #522961 (the second one implicitly, the first one by an explicit > patch). > > > Thanks, > Gian Piero. > > [0] Disclaimer: sorry for posting many patches in a single report, > but when digging for the cause I've found some other issues and most > of them seem to be someway related (but I've to admit at least a bit > of laziness is in place here, as some of them clearly aren't). I > hope having separated them one per file can help you in reviewing > and cherry picking. > > [1] Same disclaimer applies.
Wow, I've just seen your dozen of patches (and your contribs in the past) and I have to say thanks again for that. I'd be happy if you wanted to co-maintain apticron for Debian. If you're interested, please join collab-maint (http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject) and I add you as uploader. I like the second option. So, I'm reviewing/applying all the patches from your second bundle. Best regards, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .''`. Tiago Bortoletto Vaz GPG : 1024D/A504FECA : :' : http://tiagovaz.org XMPP : tiago at jabber.org `. `' tiago at {tiagovaz,debian}.org IRC : tiago at OFTC `- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal OS http://www.debian.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
