[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#766838: Bug#766838: ntpdate runs before network is up

[René Wagner]

Hi Kurt,

thanks for your response!

On 01/15/2017 06:25 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> I don't think we should have a while loop in there, or at least time
> out after some time.

Note that this is within a background sub-shell and that the
wait_for_file call above also contains a while loop. I do see your point
about the timeout but it would complicate the code significantly.

> But we really shouldn't get called if it's not up in the first place.
> And calling us with "--all" doesn't make sense at all.

Yeah, I agree it would be better to figure out the root cause of these
two issues, presumably in ifupdown, rather than working around them in
the if-up.d script. That said, I'm not sure what ifupdown's intended
semantics of "the interface is up" are. The interface was brought up
after all just not fully configured.

Anyways, I'm afraid I've spent too much time on this already so I'll
have to leave that investigation to someone else :(

Cheers,

Rene