Bug 713986

Summary:	app-portage/pfl make cron job optional and provide systemd timer
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dennis Lamm <expeditioneer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Daniel Pielmeier <billie>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs, josef64, jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dennis Lamm gentoo-dev

2020-03-22 13:08:14 UTC

On Systemd systems it is not necesssary to have a cron job scheduler available, therfore the cron job is not executed. It would be good for such systems to have a systemd service and timer available.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install pfl

Actual Results:  
/etc/cron.weekly/pfl is always installed

Expected Results:  
on systemd systems a timer and service should be installed instead

Comment 1 bugs 2020-04-11 16:27:20 UTC

Hi Dennis,
I created a first version of a systemd timer file [1]. Can you have a look if this:

a) is what you expected
b) works for you

Thsnk
Daniel

[1] https://github.com/portagefilelist/client/blob/master/cron/pfl.timer

Comment 2 bugs 2020-04-11 19:00:17 UTC

new location of systemd files for pfl: https://github.com/portagefilelist/client/tree/master/systemd

Comment 3 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev

2020-04-12 17:36:24 UTC

Should be fixed wit pfl-3.1. Please reopen if this is still an issue.