Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
there seems to be a bigger move to change all cron controlled services to systemd-timers: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115430
I have a few questions left while I'm working on updating a package for it:
1. for which distributions should such a change happen? Just Factory or also 15.1?
Depends on ;) At first you should get it working stable including updating from cron to systemd-timer in Factory. If that works without any change for the user, it can go into 15.1, else it should not.
2. should the package contain any hints/outputs when this changes? If yes, how?
If the user has now to make any configuration changes, you should create a README for this.
3. if the package was already installing the cron job directly with installation is it expected that the corresponding service and timer is requested to be added to the defaults or should it stay with the user (who probably does not expect that he needs to do something; see
Depends on the job. If the cron job did always run because it is required, then you should also enable the timer by default. If the cron job only run because it was easier, but does not do anything before the customer does modify/enable something, you should document that the user now has to enable the timer, too. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org