[Fedora-spins] Change ntp sync servers in Spin BrOffice.org

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 16:47:32 -0300,
  Wolnei <wolnei at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> One person of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee talked with me on
> event, because they have a new Stratum1 ntp servers and he spoken with all
> distributions with local versions to use them. I like this idea because is
> more quickly synchronize with one ntp server here in Brazil then one outside
> our country and i believe this will useful for our users.

They might want to join the ntp pool. You can specify servers in Brazil
or South America when using it.

> One friend and I developed a way to do that with a post command in the
> Kickstart file, but in a talk with the another maintainer of Spin
> BrOffice.org, he told me than we can have problems with Spin Guidelines.
> 
> The solution than we propose is add this:
> 
> %post
> 
> if [ -f /etc/ntp.conf ]; then
>     sed -i    -e 's/^server 0.fedora.*$/server a.st1.ntp.br/g' \
>         -e 's/^server 1.fedora.*$/server c.st1.ntp.br/g' \
>         -e 's/^server 2.fedora.*$/server d.st1.ntp.br/g' /etc/ntp.conf
> else
>     echo -en "server a.st1.ntp.br\nserver c.st1.ntp.br\nserver d.st1.ntp.br\n"
> > /etc/ntp.conf
> fi
> 
> %end
> 
> At the end of our kickstart file.
> 
> So, i need your help to find a way to add this improvement in our Spin, even
> if we need to do it another way.
> 
> What do you think about it?

It will need an exception to policy.
Even though this particular spin is tightly coupled to Brazil, people may
use it outside of Brazil.

As far as I can figure out, attempts to find your location are done before
you are handed the ip address for an ntp server. So I think changing this
is a bad idea. Rather having this group join the group providing ntp in
Brazil is a better option.