[pkg-ntp-maintainers] [pkg-ntp] 04/13: Build sntp

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On 07.05.2017 22:30, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 07:44:06PM +0000, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>> diff --git a/debian/ntp.install b/debian/ntp.install
>> index af7071d..a794f1b 100644
>> --- a/debian/ntp.install
>> +++ b/debian/ntp.install
>> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ debian/tmp/usr/sbin/ntp-keygen
>>  debian/tmp/usr/sbin/ntp-wait
>>  debian/tmp/usr/sbin/ntpd
>>  debian/tmp/usr/sbin/ntptime
>> +debian/tmp/usr/sbin/sntp
> 
> It's probably more useful in it's own binary package.
> 
> I'm wondering if we should run it fron crom / systemd trigger
> with a random delay (like certbot does for instance), and we
> should probably make it confict with the ntp package in that
> case. An other alternative is that we make it act more like
> like ntpdate.

I'd like to have it co-installable, but maybe we could have both? A
seperate sntp binary package, and a sntp-systemd (or -periodic or
whatever) depending on sntp and conflicting with ntp (either the package
or some runtime inhibition) shipping the necessary bits for a periodic
SNTP sync?

Bernhard