On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:03:12AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > hi jeroen, steve, > > if i understand correctly, there are two issues: > > - offset of zero being treated as an error > - usage of ntpdate > > for the former, i believe this issue is resolved in the latest version > of ntp. for the latter, is using ntpdate really a problem? jeroen: > you claim that ntpdate is deprecated, but is it? afaik it's still quite > useful in many situations, including this case.
Steve wrote "... since ntpdate is deprecated ..." in the initial bug submission, I just copied that. I don't know, something the NTP maintainer knows more about of course (or maybe it's documented somewhere, didn't really look either). > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:27:53PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > gathering from ntpdate output to gathering the same data from ntpq output. > > If > > ntpdate is really deprecated, something to pass along upstream, I'd say > > (true > > in general for these bugs, I might add). > > you're talking to someone who's also on upstream :) in fact, i'd much > rather deal with bugs in the debian bts then the POS sourceforge > tracker, and then migrate them to upstream cvs in one big batch later on. Ah, I see, didn't know that :). Thanks for your upstream work then, in that case! > > That said, my patch in #268044 should still apply manually -- while the > > regex > > has changed, it became stricter rather than more lenient, and the point > > stands > > that the exact format of each column really doesn't matter and only makes > > things more fragile, and only the contents of those columns that are > > actually > > used matter (2, 4 and 11). So also the current regex can be replaced by the > > one I proposed in #268044. > > i'll include this patch in the next update. Spiff. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
