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Bug 35677 - sys-process/mcron ebuild request
Summary: sys-process/mcron ebuild request
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/
Whiteboard: sunrise-suggested
Keywords: EBUILD
: 214819 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-12-12 12:58 UTC by Ben Carrell
Modified: 2019-12-19 15:18 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
Ebuild for mcron-1.0.0 (mcron-1.0.0.ebuild,1.50 KB, text/plain)
2004-04-25 01:38 UTC, Doug Weimer
Details
/etc/init.d/mcron file (mcron-1.0.0-init,1.24 KB, text/plain)
2004-04-25 01:40 UTC, Doug Weimer
Details
/etc/conf.d/mcron (mcron-1.0.0-conf,151 bytes, text/plain)
2004-04-25 01:41 UTC, Doug Weimer
Details
A copy of vixie-cron's crontab file (mcron-1.0.0-crontab.vixie,612 bytes, text/plain)
2004-04-25 01:43 UTC, Doug Weimer
Details
Scheme version of the run-crons crontab entries (mcron-1.0.0-crontab.guile,549 bytes, text/plain)
2004-04-25 01:46 UTC, Doug Weimer
Details

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Description Ben Carrell 2003-12-12 12:58:06 UTC
GNU Mcron is a 100% Vixie cron replacement written in pure Guile. As well as accepting traditional crontabs, it also accepts configuration files written in Scheme for infinite flexibility in specifying when jobs should run (it could take the system load into account, for example).
Comment 1 Doug Weimer 2004-04-25 01:38:26 UTC
Created attachment 29992 [details]
Ebuild for mcron-1.0.0

This ebuild uses a few sed lines to clean up configure and makefile.in so that
they don't violate the sandbox. I wasn't sure of the best way to handle
vixie-cron emulation so I provided an /etc/conf.d/mcron file to toggle the
option. This package should be put in sys-apps with the rest of the crons.
Comment 2 Doug Weimer 2004-04-25 01:40:38 UTC
Created attachment 29993 [details]
/etc/init.d/mcron file

This is an init file for mcron. It should go in the mcron/files directory. The
use of pkill is necessary because mcron only creates a cron.pid file when
emulating vixie-cron.
Comment 3 Doug Weimer 2004-04-25 01:41:57 UTC
Created attachment 29994 [details]
/etc/conf.d/mcron

This conf.d file currently has one option to toggle vixie-cron emulation on or
off.
Comment 4 Doug Weimer 2004-04-25 01:43:29 UTC
Created attachment 29995 [details]
A copy of vixie-cron's crontab file

This is a direct copy of vixie-cron's crontab and is placed at /etc/crontab in
case vixie emulation is desired.
Comment 5 Doug Weimer 2004-04-25 01:46:33 UTC
Created attachment 29996 [details]
Scheme version of the run-crons crontab entries

This is a scheme example of the cron.{daily,weekly,etc} entries. I chose to use
the more familiar crontab style entries in the jobs functions so that it was
easier to understand for users new to scheme.
Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-10 06:32:37 UTC
FTP requires password, cannot be downloaded.

CANTFIX.
Comment 7 Jorrit Kronjee 2006-05-10 04:50:55 UTC
mcron is homed at http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/ these days. It can be downloaded from there. 
Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-26 09:07:34 UTC
*** Bug 214819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-26 09:08:22 UTC
Hmmm.
Comment 10 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-03 19:59:36 UTC
by way of fellow gentoo dev Jeremy Olexa (darkside):

Hello, The Gentoo Team would like to firstly thank you for your ebuild
submission. We also apologize for not being able to accommodate you in a timely
manor. There are simply too many new packages.

Allow me to use this opportunity to introduce you to Gentoo Sunrise. The
sunrise overlay[1] is a overlay for Gentoo which we allow trusted users to
commit to and all users can have ebuilds reviewed by Gentoo devs for entry into
the overlay. 
So, the sunrise team is suggesting that you look into this and submit your
ebuild to the overlay where even *you* can commit to. =)

Because this is a mass message, we are also asking you to be patient with us.
We anticipate a large number of requests in a short time. 

Thanks,
On behalf of the Gentoo Sunrise Team,
Jeremy.

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/
[2]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/SunriseFaq
Comment 11 Marek Szuba archtester gentoo-dev 2019-08-19 11:21:12 UTC
Upstream is not particularly active but it IS active, the current release (1.1.2) came out in November 2018 and the latest repository commit was made about 4 months ago. The main question is, is there still any interest in adding this to the tree? If not, we shall close this ticket in 30 days.