On 09.07.19 09:32, Marc Haber wrote: > It is good to know where things are going. Would you mind if I created > a wiki page with this road map laid out about where Debian's cron > world is going?
Not at all, on the contrary -- thanks for the offer! > That would, though, only make sense if you could find > the time to cross-read it and add omissions and point out factual > errors. Of course. >> Over the past couple of years, I've spent a considerable amount of >> effort in converting the format to source format 3.0 (quilt), but I >> never quite finished and got distracted with other stuff. Nevertheless, >> I completed this conversion in February. I'll push it over the next few >> days (I was just waiting for buster to be released before doing anything >> drastic). > > \o/ > > It is good to know that there is considerable work going on, most of > it being on the source code level, which is unfortunately something I > cannot be helpful because I'm not a sufficiently good C programmer. I > was not even aware that vixie cron and cronie share a common code base > that makes such a migration feasible. There's a lot of non-C stuff that needs to be done, too, in case you're interested in that? For example, I'm almost certain by now that the system crontab file and dirs (/etc/crontab, /etc/cron.*) need to be moved out into a separate config package so that alternative cron implementations can use them. Currently, each implementation ships its own crontabs, and switching between them (eg: switching from cron to bcron) is a pain. >> My current plan it to move from vixie cron 3.0pl1-134 directly to a >> (patched) cronie as soon as possible, so that the default daemon can be >> switched to cronie in time the next release. > > Great! That is good to know. Are you using a mailing list for this > effort that I can subscribe to and see where I can be helpful? Or is > this mainly a one-man show anyway? There used to be one until the move to salsa, and I'm ashamed to say I forgot to opt-in to the migration. I'll set one up for cronie and then report back to this list. Regards, Christian
