Re: [johannes@caldera.de: Comments on Chapter 17 (cron) of the LSB Spec]
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:46:49 -0500
From: Wade Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com>
Questions:
1. Would this have any impact on embedded systems?
None; embedded systems aren't expected to be LSB complaint. (Remember,
the initial scope of the LSB is to make sure that ISV's like Intuit can
ship a single version of TurboTax that will work on any distribution.)
2. What would break by having only this be the solution?
For example, what about old packages....
3. Should the existing cron.daily... directories be
"depreciated", i.e., supported but not recommended for
future applications?
This only specifies that a certain set of directories must be present so
that LSB applications can assume their existence, without having to
search in a dozen different places for them.
It doesn't state anything about what distributions must do with the old
locations; only that LSB complaint distributions must provide this set.
(And they could do so with symlinks to their existing cron.daily
directories if they decided to do so.) Of course, some distributions
will switch over to using only the LSB directories, in which case it's
their responsibility to figure out what's the best way to deal with the
backwards compatibility issues. They might provide transition symlinks
for a while, or hack their installer to redirect files, or any number of
other choices; that's up to them, and it's not the LSB's place to
dictate such implementation details.
- Ted
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