On 1/6/24 5:34 PM, Stefan Monnier via Freedombox-discuss wrote:
FreedomBox is a great way to setup many different services, but I can't
seem to figure out how to make it serve the time via the NTP protocol.

I tried to do it by hand, but I can't install `ntpsec` because it
conflicts with the `systemd-timesyncd` package which is required
by FreedomBox.

What am I missing?

There are 4 Debian packages that provide the virtual package "time-daemon": https://packages.debian.org/stable/virtual/time-daemon

All 4 of them also have Conflicts relation with time-daemon, so they conflict with the other 3 packages that provide it.

At the moment, I don't see any good solution that would allow you to run ntpsec on FreedomBox. There would be a fundamental conflict between these 2 goals:
1) Let someone decide on purpose to install ntpsec.
2) Ensure that FreedomBox works correctly, even if ntpsec just "happened" to be installed before (not through a purposeful decision). We have seen that some VPSes add various "default" packages (for firewall, time server, etc.) to their Debian images.

One possible work-around might be to run ntpsec in a container.

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