On 24/07/10 10:41, Robbert Kouprie wrote: > Hi, > > For a while, noone seems to care about this grave openntpd bug on the > kfreebsd platform. Because of this, the package was eventually removed > from testing. For people running on different architectures than > kfreebsd this is very unfortunate, because they did not suffer from > this grave bug. > > Can't we just exclude kfreebsd-* from the Architecture field in > debian/control so that we don't build the package for kfreebsd > (pending the kfreebsd bug getting fixed)? > > Regards, > Robbert > > Hi Robbert Kouprie.
I'm afraid it's not yet so easy to debug on kfreebsd-* flavors, as the port lack most common (unless for me) debugging tools, therefore, you might understand it's not a matter like " noone cares". On the other hand, against what common sense could tell you, openntpd doesn't adjust the system's clock rate (it uses adjtime()), although Its something you take for granted when you install a software like this, it really ends up being more painful than useful for end-users that "just want their sandboxes clocked" (#306106). Unfortunately, the only patch I could manage to get running on replacing adjtime() with adjtimex() didn't work as expected. Therefore, in the hope of waiting for a patch that could do the magic, I'll be requesting release managers for removal and block on Squeeze for the sake of user's sanity. Greetings, Dererk -- BOFH excuse #344: Network failure - call NBC
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