F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd (fwd)

[Tom Hughes]

On 17/07/13 15:20, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Paul Wouters <paul at nohats.ca> said:
>> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>> a. ntpd/ntpdate aren't installed by default with Fedora 19. I
>>> don't see the feature proposing this be changed.
>>
>> That's a bug then. It is needed for DNSSEC.
>
> No, ntpd is not needed for DNSSEC.  A correct clock is required, but
> ntpd is not the only solution.  Fedora switched to chrony by default
> several releases ago.

In F16 in fact: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChronyDefaultNTP

>> Well, my f18 does not even have chrony installed. Did that change for
>> f19? I don't see it at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList
>
> Then you must have done a non-standard install; chrony is in the
> Standard group in comps.

Note of course that anybody upgrading from before F16 may still be using 
ntpd unless they switched themselves, at least if you upgrade with yum. 
Not sure if preupgrade/fedup will have done the switch as part of an 
upgrade.

Tom

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