I recently reinstalled Gentoo on my x86 system. As part of the installation, I had to install a cron package, following the instructions in the installation guide. At the end of chapter 16 of the x86 Installation Guide, I was told to emerge vcron (code listing 16.9). When I entered the appropriate command, emerge responded that the package was not found. I looked in the sys-apps directory, and discovered the vixie-cron package there. I installed that instead. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Gentoo from an install CD for x86 platform. 2. Reach the step in Chapter 16 (installing cron package). 3. Type "emerge sys-apps/vcron". Actual Results: Emerge responded that the package was not found. I looked in the sys-apps directory, and discovered that the package no longer exists. Instead, vixie-cron exists, and that is what I installed instead. Expected Results: The Installation Guide should have told me to install vixie-cron instead of vcron.
Created attachment 22144 [details, diff] Patch to gentoo-x86-install.xml Can a docdev review?
vcron is available...
Euh, a bit more information :) IIRC, seemant has made vcron available again. The issues are with GRP: GRP packages still have vcron, while the recent portage snapshots have both vcron and vixie-cron. As the result of this (and the fact that the handbook chapter will contain the only official installation instructions from Gentoo 2004 onwards) I'm thinking about not updating the gentoo-x86-install (as it will be removed at the next Gentoo release). Unless vcron is really out (which would render gentoo-x86-install wrong, which is not what I want), I'd rather keep it this way (to not overload our translation teams).
Oh, and in case vcron is really out of the Portage tree: the patch looks fine :)
Nevertheless i think we should suggest installing vixie-cron in the gentoo-x86-install guide. Future updates from vcron to a new version of vixie-cron _can_ cause problems (for example blocking dependencies, rc-scripts are redefined ) so i think it is a cleaner solution to mention vixie-cron instead of vcron.
Okay, go ahead.
In CVS now.
