When installing ntp 4.1.1b-r5, the only documentation that is installed in /usr/share/doc. No man pages are installed, although the text for such man pages are clearly available in HTML form in the /usr/share/doc directory. Also, the ntp ebuild doesn't provide very good instructions on how to actually install it. Is it sufficient to configure /etc/ntp.conf or should the /etc/conf.d/ntpd file also be edited? It might also be helpful to add the rc-update add ntdp default command to the message. See the following post for some comments from a frustrated user that attempted at getting ntp installed and configured correctly: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=240124#240124 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
lack of manpage is invalid ... see Bug 13612 as for lack of proper setup docs, the pkg_postinst() takes care of that ... i've updated it here: http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/ntp/ntp-4.1.1b-r5.ebuild.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5 if the user failed to see that msg, its a portage bug and there are bugs open to handle proper display of e* msg's ...
The new messages are better, thanks. If you add the following line too, they would be even better: "Finally, install with 'rc-update add ntpd default'." Sorry about rehashing the man page issue.
i wont add the rc-update thing cause that can be applied to all packages that install an init.d script ... basically, people should read the docs on the Gentoo page ... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml
In theory I agree with you and for most packages this would be sufficient. It is just that some users (me included) did not originally understand that the ntp client is a daemon. We erroneously assumed that it was the ntpdate program that was the main event, and that it had to be crontab:ed. I though that the ntpd daemon was only needed to run a ntp server. It wasn't until I actually read the docs that I understood that ntpd is both a client and a server in one daemon process. This is, in my opinion, rather odd for Unix daemons (but there are probably good reasons for it). So, to make my point, I still think that the rc-update should be explicitly mentioned to make it painfully clear that this is how ntp should be installed. Sorry about being so verbose and persistent in this, I just wanted to make sure that you understood my point. BTW. Checked up the ntp distribution site. Unbelievable that they do not distribute anything but HTML. Not even XML or SGML doc sources what I could find. Really disappointing...
