Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-process/vixie-cron

[Ralph Seichter]

* Michał Górny:

> Unmaintained. Ancient.

First release of vixie-cron: 1987. Cronie: 2007. Damn, this makes me
feel old. :-/

-Ralph

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-process/vixie-cron

[Michał Górny]

# Michał Górny  (2019-09-11)
# Unmaintained.  Ancient.  Carries a lot of patches, and has even more
# bugs reported.  Last rites were cancelled due to Gentoo/FreeBSD 1 year
# ago but that project is dead nowadays.  Many alternatives exist,
# sys-process/cronie is probably the closest one (it's a fork).
# Removal in 30 days.  Bug #693946.
sys-process/vixie-cron

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-process/vixie-cron

[Thomas Deutschmann]

On 2018-09-20 11:17, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
> # Mikle Kolyada  (20 Sep 2018)
> # Dead upstream and unmaintained for a long time,
> # has multiple bugs open, use sys-process/cronie
> # instead (the fork). Removal in 30 days.
> sys-process/vixie-cron

I reverted that mask for now, see
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0fd44962557b7870ac34c9b64f9bcfefc508f1e0
for details.


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Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-process/vixie-cron

[Mikle Kolyada]

# Mikle Kolyada  (20 Sep 2018)
# Dead upstream and unmaintained for a long time,
# has multiple bugs open, use sys-process/cronie
# instead (the fork). Removal in 30 days.
sys-process/vixie-cron



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