Bug#388328: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#388328: boot logging fix for ntpdate in /etc/init.d

[Rick Thomas]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 4:18 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 04:25 schrieb Rick Thomas:
>>> But that information is not available in the if-up script.
>>
>> There are ways to find it out.  If you like, I'll do up and test a
>> sample.
>
> Please.

Will do.  I hope to get back to you in a couple of days(*).

>
>>>> If so, would it be desirable to have them officially conflict?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> Forgive me my ignorance.  I'm not an expert on the details of the apt
>> dependency process.  Can you educate me as to why it's not a good  
>> idea?
>
> Well, they don't actually conflict.  They are just usually not used  
> together.
> In particular, considering that in sarge, they usually *are* used  
> together,
> it would probably upset quite a few people if we turned this around  
> during
> the upgrade.
>
> If may make sense to drop the -u option from the default ntpdate  
> options, so
> ntpdate doesn't run when ntpd is running.  Do you want to try that  
> out?
> (see /etc/default/ntpdate)

Happy to.  Once again, give me a day or so to experiment.

(*) The main server for our house fried a disk this morning.  I'm  
still dealing with the details that remain after getting it back in  
working order with a new disk.  So it may take me a bit of time to  
get to do the experiments.  But I *will* do it.

I noticed that the new ntp/ntpdate packages made it into etch  
yesterday.  That will make the experiments a bit easier.  I don't  
normally run sid systems, which is why looking at the ntp* packages  
in sid didn't occur to me first think.

Enjoy!

Rick