On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:53:59AM +0200, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote: > George Danchev wrote: > >On Wednesday 14 September 2005 10:03, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:07:30AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >> > >>>I just discovered that the ntp source is a nest of licensing problems. > >>> > >>>The arlib subdir isn't distributable. > >>>Neither is the entire libparse subdir, or anything else by Frank Kardel. > >>> > >>>I'm not actually sure it will build without these bits. > >>> > >>>So I guess NTP should be removed from Debian. It's not very > >>>maintained anyhow, having multiple RC bugs open for quite a while. > >> > >>What are you going to replace it with? AFAIK, ntp is the only package > >>we have in Debian which supports useful clock synchronization, which is > >>essential for a number of other services (e.g., Kerberos). > > > > > >I've never tested openntpd, but it is the obvious replacement in case of > >legal problems with ntp and it has been released with sarge. > > > I use openntpd and that works better then ntp IMHO.
It lacks ntp's fast-start functionality, which means it's dependent on something vaguely like ntpdate. It's also generally feature-crippled compared to ntp - but it's from openbsd so that's hardly a surprise. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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