[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#870102: Bug#870102: automatically update schroots

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2017-07-30 16:30:23, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Quoting Antoine Beaupré (2017-07-30 16:26:08)
>> On 2017-07-30 16:06:29, Johannes Schauer wrote:
>> > Quoting Antoine Beaupré (2017-07-30 16:05:08)
>> >> On 2017-07-30 08:31:08, Johannes Schauer wrote:
>> >> > Do you not find the script in /usr/share/doc/sbuild/examples/sbuild-update-all
>> >> > sufficient?
>> >> s/sufficient// :) I didn't notice that one at all.
>> >> 
>> >> How about hooking it straight into cron in some way, or documenting it
>> >> somewhere?
>> > Patches welcome!
>> For documenting or for cron?
>
> For documenting. The cron script already exists. ;)

I mean in /etc/cron.weekly for example.

> It even has documentation of how to use it at the top. What's missing is to
> somehow tell people that the script exists.

Okay, so where can we do this - i suggested the wiki as a starting
point, but I guess adding it to the README file would be good as well?

>> In fact, how about just installing the script in /usr/sbin?
>
> Since it's not made to be used like a normal script (controlled via environment
> variables and redirections for logging) I don't think that would be a good
> idea.

It seems to have sane enough defaults that this shouldn't matter. I
don't see why that would be a problem anyways.

Another advantage in having it in the PATH somewhere is that it could
then have a manpage and be cross-referenced from stuff like
sbuild-update... Autocompletion also does wonder for auto-discovery...

Thanks!

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