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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 12:23:07PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 16, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:
> 
> > > It's still very big. For d-i we should use a simpler SNTP-only client,
> > > which would not be bigger than a few KB.
> > sntp was never part of the debian ntp package, and has license
> > problems so is removed in the current svn version.  As it is in
> > the source, it doesn't have any license.
> I did not refer to any specific implementation. E.g. I have a SNTP
> client written in about 200 lines of perl.

Yes, I also find this one:
http://www.kloth.net/software/sntp.php

And one in ruby ...  Like I said, it should be easy to find
something.


Kurt