Bug 34249

Summary:	ntpdate should be a standalone application as well
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Thorarinsson <david.thor>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	correo, stevenwagner
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Thorarinsson 2003-11-24 03:43:30 UTC

In order to be able to synchronise the time on a machine with an NTP server,
ntpdate must be used. To get this application you need the "ntp" package which
includes everything that has to do with ntp which is a bit overkill if NTP only
synchronisation is needed. Why not make a separate package called "ntpdate"
which only includes this application? This is something that is already done in
Debian.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-24 06:19:35 UTC

there was a discussion about a 'server' use flag some time ago on -dev, not sure how it ended

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-11-24 08:26:14 UTC

cant/wont be done at this stage

Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-25 07:33:07 UTC

This doesn't make sense. From the ntpdate man page:

Disclaimer:  The  functionality  of  this program is now available in the ntpd program. See the -q  command line option in the ntpd  - Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon page. After a suitable period of mourning,  the  ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution

Comment 4 David Thorarinsson 2003-11-25 22:34:27 UTC

Just to summarise: I did check into this after reading Carlo's comment. The plan is to remove ntpdate from ntp because of various reasons. The functionality provided by ntpdate will be provided by "ntpd -q". See this page for further information:

http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config.htm

Maybe we should find a small ntp client app that does the job of correcting time on workstations?

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-11-29 21:33:40 UTC

forgot ntpdate was deprecated ...

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-11-29 21:33:52 UTC

thus no soup for you

Comment 7 Steven Wagner 2004-03-04 16:07:58 UTC

*** Bug 43688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Steven Wagner 2004-03-04 16:36:57 UTC

how come we can't include ntpd on the livecd? 300k.  Too big?  Lets include ntpdate and and forget about that it is depreciated.  Without either, we are just sacrificing functionality.

Comment 9 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-20 10:18:11 UTC

*** Bug 78831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***