Bug 31310 – sys-apps/at ebuild has incorrect SPOOLDIR convention

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Douglas R. Hoffman 2003-10-16 14:34:17 UTC]

The 'at' ebuild uses '/var/cron' as the base whereas sys-apps/cronbase,
sys-apps/dcron,  sys-apps/fcron, and sys-apps/vcron use '/var/spool/cron'.  

sys-apps/anacron uses '/var/spool/anacron'


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:





It looks like the implied convention is '/var/spool/' as the base not '/var'

[Comment 1 Douglas R. Hoffman 2003-10-16 15:08:59 UTC]

Created attachment 19334 [details, diff]
patch to fix 


patch to apply against at-3.1.8-r8 to address problem.	This is only one
solution of many.  changing the dir to /var/spool/cron requires changing
other
ebuild, whereas creating /ver/spool/at will only change this ebuild

[Comment 2 Douglas R. Hoffman 2003-12-19 02:30:56 UTC]

Can I do anything else to move this along?

-doug

[Comment 3 Douglas R. Hoffman 2004-01-14 12:08:45 UTC]

I'm uncertain what should be done here.   This bug has been opened for over 3 months.  Please Advise...

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-01-25 15:16:01 UTC]

3.1.8-r10 has this fix

[Comment 5 Douglas R. Hoffman 2004-01-25 21:19:48 UTC]

r10 works for ~x86 just fine.  attempting to mark as closed.  thanks!

[Comment 6 Douglas Peter Sculley 2005-01-19 05:13:52 UTC]

Currently running sys-apps/at-3.1.8-r10 and this is still an issue for me.

At jobs are stored in /var/cron/atjobs and not /var/spool/cron/atjobs as expected.

[Comment 7 Douglas R. Hoffman 2005-01-19 07:28:00 UTC]

He is correct, the ebuild reverted to the older style, but the change log says it was fixed....

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2005-02-10 21:49:12 UTC]

it looks like agriffis accidently reverted the fixes when he fixed Bug 33696

re-reverted the fixes and added -r11