[Freeipa] [Bug 1630911] Re: freeipa-client has a hard dependency on "ntp" which is not wanted in lxd environment

2017-01-14 Thread Brian Candler
> client install expects ntpd to be present I'm not quite sure what you mean. "freeipa-client --install" does indeed give NTP errors, but it still proceeds. Here is a transcript of installing freeipa-client inside a (privileged) 16.04 lxd container. root@unifi:~# apt-get install freeipa-client

[Freeipa] [Bug 1630911] Re: freeipa-client has a hard dependency on "ntp" which is not wanted in lxd environment

2016-10-07 Thread Brian Candler
"the client setup would fail if there's no ntp installed" In what way? Is what you're really saying that the client setup would fail if the clock of the client is not within X seconds of the real time? That's correct, but is not the same as saying ntp must be installed. There are other ways of o

[Freeipa] [Bug 1630911] Re: freeipa-client has a hard dependency on "ntp" which is not wanted in lxd environment

2016-10-06 Thread Brian Candler
Or maybe what's needed is a virtual package called e.g. "synchronized- time", which freeipa-client depends on and is provided by ntp. Then you could install a dummy package inside the container, which also provides "synchronized-time" -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Freeipa] [Bug 1630911] [NEW] freeipa-client has a hard dependency on "ntp" which is not wanted in lxd environment

2016-10-06 Thread Brian Candler
Public bug reported: [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 t