On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:22:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm considering having d-i run ntpdate as part of the install process. I > can see two ways to do this; d-i could just install ntpdate onto the > target system, which would make it sync the clock at install time (and > again at bootup I think). Or we could have a small ntpdate binary in a > udeb that d-i runs once during the install. > > I'm unsure which is the better appoach. Installing ntpdate kind of > assumes it's right for everyone; I know some people, especially some > people with NTP servers, don't like running ntpdate for various reasons.
May I read that as: d-i running ntpdate will be optional and is default off Or how to request "optional, default off"? > I think that it's possible for ntpdate to hang the boot process for at > least one dns timeout if networking is broken. One open bug on ntpdate > suggests it might fail if the NIC is a pcmcia card (although I think it > would not hang in that case). > > On the other hand a udeb is more work, bloats d-i a bit more, and > doesn't put a perminent clock setting mechanism in place. > > I welcome thoughts of suggestions on this matter.. Seems like debian-installer is mature, it is adding features that that are availabe outside d-i. After having a better look at #247484, I learnt that we are talking about base-config. > > -- > see shy jo Cheers Geert Stappers
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