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If we want to have this working correctly with chronyd/ntpd, at this
point
it seems the only reasonable option is to replace systemd-timedated.
timedatex is a new implementation of the timedate interface that was
recently added to Fedora. It reads the list of NTP units from a directory
as systemd-timedated used to do. When installed, systemd will start it for
the timedate bus name instead of systemd-timedated. The timedate clients
should work as expected, please report bugs if not.
One suggestion was to install it as a dependency of the NTP packages.
Is this a good idea? Should this first go through the Fedora change
process or at least be documented somewhere?
I think having a package that “takes over” a D-Bus service name, and installing it by
default but not in all possible installations, is surprising enough that it would benefit
from a FESCo sanity check, yes. (I don’t at this moment have any specific objections to
this but this does seem a little dangerous. The flip side is that it is probably
impossible for FESCo to discuss the technical risk of timedatex without also discussing
the underlying conflict about time synchronization clients.)
(*Sigh* It would be so much better if people could come to a consensus on a single design
and implementation instead of “show me the code“-like writing software that bypasses some
other software… I suppose at least it is good that several people care about time
synchronization. Oh, and I also want world peace, and ponies. Don’t forget ponies.)
Mirek