[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#484974: Bug#484974: Bug#484974: ntpdate's ip-up script runs even for virtual interfaces

[Steve Kostecke]

Peter Eisentraut said:

>What are you using ntpdate for?

A better question is why are you using ntpdate at all?

Besides the diagnostics that ntpdate can produce, the only advantage 
ntpdate has over ntpd is that ntpdate can use an unpriviledged source
port and ntpd currently can not.

ntpd can perform an unlimited step to set the clock if you start it with
'-g'.

ntpd can emulate ntpdate and even block the boot sequence if started
with '-gq'

In tests on my LAN 'ntpd -gq' can set the clock (or start the slew) and
exit in ~11 seconds

FWIW, ntpdate is deprecated upstream ...

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