Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Peter Eisentraut (pet...@debian.org):
>
>> Nevertheless, since ntpdate used to be quite popular, I figured I'd better
>> ask
>> here for objections.
>>
>> Would there be a possibility to prove some kind of wrapper for those
>> among our users who might have various local stuff that are using
>> ntpdate ?
>>
>From what was said in this thread, a quite feasible solution could be:
- For Squeeze: a package "ntpdate" which depends on rdate and
provides a wrapper script, used to emulate ntpdate's main functionality
(set the system's clock) in terms of rdate and mark it as deprecated
- For Squeeze+1: just drop it
* I do use ntpdate "regularly" --every time I fiddle with my system's
clock or check a customer's older server-- for the same purpose that
weasel gave before.
Regards,
J.L.
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