it's not that simple, the client setup would fail if there's no ntp installed, and I don't think there's a reliable way to detect lxc
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of FreeIPA, which is subscribed to freeipa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630911 Title: freeipa-client has a hard dependency on "ntp" which is not wanted in lxd environment Status in freeipa package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: [Note: the package is called "freeipa-client" but launchpad only lets me select "freeipa"] The "freeipa-client" package has a hard dependency on "ntp". However: when running Ubuntu inside an lxd container, ntpd cannot run: the host is responsible for setting the clock, not the container. Hence I want to "apt-get remove ntp" from inside the container. But if I do so, this forcibly removes the "freeipa-client" package as well, because of the dependency. This in turn leaves a whole heap of dangling packages - see below - which are vulnerable to being accidentally removed. Proposal: change to "Recommends: ntp" instead of "Depends: ntp" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # apt-get remove ntp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: bind9utils certmonger cracklib-runtime freeipa-common ieee-data iproute libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libbasicobjects0 libc-ares2 libcollection4 libcrack2 libcups2 libcurl3 libcurl3-nss libdhash1 libfreetype6 libini-config5 libipa-hbac0 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblcms2-2 libldb1 libnfsidmap2 libnl-3-200 libnl-route-3-200 libnspr4 libnss-sss libnss3 libnss3-nssdb libnss3-tools libopts25 libpam-pwquality libpam-sss libpath-utils1 libpwquality-common libpwquality1 libref-array1 libsmbclient libsss-idmap0 libsss-nss-idmap0 libsss-sudo libtdb1 libtevent0 libtiff5 libwebp5 libwebpmux1 libxmlrpc-core-c3 libxslt1.1 oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir python-bs4 python-cffi python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-cryptography python-dbus python-decorator python-dnspython python-enum34 python-gi python-gssapi python-html5lib python-idna python-imaging python-ipaclient python-ipaddress python-ipalib python-jwcrypto python-ldap python-libipa-hbac python-lxml python-memcache python-netaddr python-nss python-pil python-pkg-resources python-ply python-pyasn1 python-pycparser python-qrcode python-setuptools python-six python-sss python-talloc python-usb python-yubico samba-libs sssd sssd-ad sssd-ad-common sssd-common sssd-ipa sssd-krb5 sssd-krb5-common sssd-ldap sssd-proxy Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: freeipa-client ntp 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 2002 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: freeipa-client 4.3.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc ip6table_filter ip6_tables xt_conntrack ufs msdos xfs binfmt_misc veth ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack isofs xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle xt_tcpudp bridge stp llc iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair spl zavl ppdev xen_fbfront syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops serio_raw parport_pc parport ib_iser rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi autofs4 btrfs raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 multipath linear crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd psmouse floppy ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 6 09:05:52 2016 Ec2AMI: ami-c06b1eb3 Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown) Ec2AvailabilityZone: eu-west-1a Ec2InstanceType: t2.medium Ec2Kernel: unavailable Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) SourcePackage: freeipa UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeipa/+bug/1630911/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~freeipa Post to : freeipa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~freeipa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
