chrony as default NTP client?

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Thursday 06 May 2010 13:10:36 Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:39:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com> writes:
> > > On 05/05/2010 09:35 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > >> With the latest improvements in the chrony package related to
> > >> NetworkManager and name resolving I think it is now good enough to
> > >> replace ntpd in the default configuration and the configurations
> > >> supported by system-config-date.
> > >> 
> > >  I think this is a terrible idea.
> > 
> > Yes.  I certainly wouldn't use it, and especially object to the proposed
> > strong-arm tactics of eliminating all configuration support for ntpd.
> > The case for making chrony default is weak enough, and the case for
> > throwing roadblocks in the way of people who prefer ntpd is nonexistent.
> 
> I'm not suggesting to remove the ntp support from s-c-d, just to add a
> support for chrony and change the dependency to a name provided by
> both packages and marking chrony as default in the comps.

I think it would be better to drop ntp support completely from s-c-d once 
chrony becomes default in Fedora. We aim to support default Fedora 
configuration tools. Radek Novacek is now working on date/time DBus interface 
under FMCI umbrella.

Jaroslav
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