On 7 December 2013 15:09, Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.na...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dmitrijs, > > thank you for your reply! The proposed solution sounds good, except > for servers which rarely (re)configure their network. Is there another > option that would work for servers, too? >
Servers that rarely (re)configure network or boot, can also setup cron to call to ntpdate or install an NTP client daemon when they are first configured. Regards, Dmitrijs. > Best, > Thiemo > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org> wrote: >> reassign 731594 ntpdate >> retitle 731594 Please make ntpdate package priority standard >> thanks >> >> On 7 December 2013 10:25, Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.na...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Package: debian-installer >>> Severity: normal >>> Tags: d-i >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I think that a modern OS should take care of time synchronisation without >>> requiring user intervention. As far as I can see, Debian doesn't install any >>> kind of NTP client by default. (I'd guess that it falls back behind Mac and >>> Windows in this regard. Even my mobile phone synchronises time >>> automatically.) >>> >>> Thus, I'd suggest to install as part of the base system an NTP package >>> (eg. ntp, openntpd, chrony) configured to act as client only. >>> >>> This issue has already been discussed nine years ago, however I believe that >>> user's expectations have changed through the passage of time and thus a >>> fresh >>> look at the topic may be warranted. >>> >>> http://bugs.debian.org/397649 >>> >> >> I fully agree that ntp client should be installed by default. Checking >> dependencies of the available candidates (such that we can see what >> other packages they pull into standard set): >> * ntp - libopts25 (optional) >> * ntpdate - all good >> * openntpd - all good >> * chrony - timelimit (optional) >> >> Nothing too scary. >> >> The other concern raised was people on intermittent and metered >> connections (3G / dial-up), who may not want to have a daemon running >> that can't do anything, nor a daemon that would establish unwanted >> internet connections. To this extend ntpdate is the best package, as >> it is only executed upon network configuration without a long running >> daemon, nor periodic cron job. >> >> To resolve this bug report one of the above packages should become >> priority standard. From d-i point of view, any would do =) >> >> I recommend for ntpdate to become such one. Therefore I am reassigning >> this bug to package "ntpdate" for its maintainer to consider this >> change. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
