[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#566318: Bug#566318: Bug#566318: buildd: Don't ship a /etc/cron.d/buildd that's enabled by default.

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:17:18PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:43:16PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Currently installing buildd is enough to try and start the daemon
> > without even any configuration.  This is not useful.  (root gets
> > mailed about it and things like that.)
> 
> I guess it's debateable if it should be in a global crontab.  However
> it's indeed utterly useless to try to start an unconfigured buildd.
> (Which it obviously doesn't seem to notice.)

Currently, we terminate if there are no distributions configured.

    if (!@{$self->get_conf('DISTRIBUTIONS')}) {
        die "distribution list is empty, aborting.";
    }

Is this what's getting mailed?

How would you prefer that we detect whether the daemon has been
configured?

> > Also, I do not want to run buildd-watcher, it's totaly useless
> > and annoying.
> 
> That's your mileage that varies here, though.

We can add a configuration to not automatically run the
watcher if not all buildd admins want it.  OTOH, consistency
between buildds is something IMO we should be aiming for.


Regards,
Roger

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