Bug 666672 – sys-process/cronie: Add support for legacy vixie-cron and crond init.d symlinks

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Manuel Schmitt 2018-09-21 05:26:17 UTC]

Created attachment 547452 [details, diff]
Patch for legacy init.d names

As sys-process/vixie-cron is now obsolete, some users could be glad about legacy symlinks in /etc/init.d.

I propose to have a

    /etc/init.d/cronie -> /etc/init.d/crond
    /etc/init.d/cronie -> /etc/init.d/vixie-cron

if user wants.

What about

        --- a/sys-process/cronie/cronie-1.5.1-r1.ebuild
    +++ b/sys-process/cronie/cronie-1.5.1-r1.ebuild
    @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/archive/${P}.tar.gz"
    
     LICENSE="ISC BSD BSD-2 GPL-2"
     KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86"
    -IUSE="+anacron +inotify pam selinux"
    +IUSE="+anacron +inotify pam selinux legacy-init-crond legacy-init-vixiecron"
    
     DEPEND="pam? ( virtual/pam )
            anacron? ( !sys-process/anacron )"
    @@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ src_install() {
                    insinto /etc/cron.d
                    doins contrib/dailyjobs
            fi
    +
    +       if use legacy-init-crond ; then
    +               cd ${D}/etc/init.d
    +               ln -s cronie crond
    +       fi
    +
    +       if use legacy-init-vixiecron ; then
    +               cd ${D}/etc/init.d
    +               ln -s cronie vixie-cron
    +       fi
    
            einstalldocs
     }

Maybe the USE flag names are not ideal, but just a try.

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2022-09-24 21:21:47 UTC]

You are welcome to create such symlinks yourself. I don't see any reason to have the ebuild do it.