[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#352610: Please create a udeb for ntpdate

[Rick Thomas]

On Jul 15, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> * Rick Thomas <rbthomas55 at pobox.com> [2006-07-15 01:48]:
>> Yeah, ntpdate  will do the job, and it's a good bit smaller than the
>> full ntp-simple package.
>> The alternative you were thinking of *may* be "chrony".
>
> Maybe, although it seems that ntpdate is signiticantly smaller than
> chron.
>
>> However, keep in mind that NTP, by it's very nature, needs access to
>> a network time server.  The operative word here is "network".  If you
>> don't have access to the global internet, and you don't have an NTP
>> server on your local network (or you're doing an install without any
>> network connection at all for some reason) both ntpdate and chrony
>> will fail.  You need to think hard about what you want to do under
>> those circumstances.  Is it acceptable to have the d-i ask for the
>> address of an NTP server at the same time as it's asking for other
>> network parameters?  For what it's worth, some DHCP servers will
>
> We'd obviously only run NTP if the network is available.  It's useful
> on e.g. network installations.

It's not just a network -- you need an NTP server.  If you have  
access to the Internet, that's easy.  If not, you may have network  
access but no NTP access.

Just a thought,

Rick