[Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature: Chrony as default NTP client

Wed Jun 13 16:13:27 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 13/06/12 15:05 did gyre and gimble:
+> Olav Vitters <olav at ...> writes:
+>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:30:46AM -0700, David Walser wrote:
+>>> As Fedora has done, the proposal to change the default NTP client to chrony:
+>>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:ChronyDefaultNTP
+>>
+>> Note that systemd has some deamon to control "NTP":
+>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated
+> 
+> Thanks for pointing that out, it's a new thing that I wasn't aware of.
+> 
+> Fedora has just added it to their ntp package:
+> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=ntp.git;a=commitdiff;h=a05ddcca8f863e9d2585271207bad00da4b30e6f
+> 
+> We'll pull that change in the next time we update our ntp package and its
+> systemd unit file.
+
+I already made the important part of that change in mga2 prior to release:
+
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/ntp/current/SOURCES/ntpd.service?r1=227388&r2=234622
+
+
+We differ from fedora which effectively mades it static when installed
+(i.e. no way to disable it), whereas we still provide a way to disable
+it should the user wish (although it is enabled by default).
+
+> They also added it to chrony, which we'll get when we import it:
+> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=chrony.git;a=commitdiff;h=f56b1f868382bd6c4a2774e39bb4d9004c79c953
+
+Yup. I'm not sure if we should take the same course of action as ntp
+(make them both still optional if installed) of if the packages
+themselves should conflict or similar. I'm not sure what kind of havoc
+is wreaked when both ntp and chrony are installed together.
+
+>> Suggest MCC and so on make use of that as much as possible. If you
+>> agree, please add to feature page.
+> 
+> What changes would need to be made in MCC for this?
+
+Basically make it use the dbus service exclusively to adjust the time
+and timezone (tho' there may still be some files to be written with zone
+information etc, but I'm not 100% sure without looking properly)
+
+Col
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