[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#520486: $OPT overrides $NTPOPTIONS in ntpdate-debian

[Jörg Sommer]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

you call ntpdate-debian in /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate with the option
-b (set in OPTS) if the interface method is static. ntpdate-debian puts
this option $@ behind the options set in /etc/default/ntpdate in
$NTPOPTIONS with overrides them. This leads to the problem that the -b
option overrides my setting of -B. My clock should always be adjusted
with adjtime(). You should change the order of $@ and $NTPOPTIONS,
because later override former options.

Or you should remove the option -b in /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate. I
don't follow the argument, that a static method is a major event. I've a
laptop and use guessnet for different networts. Some of them have static
settings, but they aren't more or less important than the interfaces with
dhcp. I don't think this assumtions holds in general.

Bye, Jörg.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable/experimental
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc8
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                       2.16-2     support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8g-15  SSL shared libraries
ii  netbase                       4.34       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages ntpdate recommends:
pn  lockfile-progs                <none>     (no description available)

ntpdate suggests no packages.

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