[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#772990: /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian: does not synchronize time

[Peter Eisentraut]

On 1/9/15 3:47 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> It's obviously not bad thing to consult dhcp but doing so silently is
> not so nice.
> 
> It should be documented that dhcp supplied server overrides configuration file.
> 
> I think it would be useful if the user-supplied configuration actually
> overrode dhcp supplied one but that would make supplying a default
> server set in the package impractical.
> 
> Actually, you could try dhcp supplied server and if that fails try the
> one from configuration file.

I agree something could be better there.  Not sure what yet.