On 5 Jan 1998, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Christian> The solution presented in 3.3.7 is that the "owner" of
> Christian> the conffile (cron in that case) provides a utility
> Christian> (like install-info, for example) through which other
> Christian> packages can register and remove cron jobs.
>
> Perhaps the "/etc/crontab" shouldn't be a conffile; but created by
> the installation scripts?
Since /etc/crontab is actually a conffile (no matter if you tag it as such
or not) this would be a "dirty" hack around our policy.
Fact is, that the "cron" package, the local sysadmin, and possibly other
packages modify the /etc/crontab file. However, dpkg only controls
modification between the sysadmin and _one_ package ("cron" here). I
really think the cron package should provide a script where other packages
can register cron jobs.
I'll file a bug report.
Thanks,
Chris
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