timedatex replacing systemd-timedated for NTP packages

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Tue Nov 25 17:26:12 UTC 2014


On Tue, 25.11.14 11:08, Michael Catanzaro (mcatanzaro at gnome.org) wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 17:15 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > I am sorry, but timedated is really not the place to control NTP
> > *server* software. It's simply, desktopy stuff, for controlling NTP
> > clients. 
> 
> Of course, but the desktopy NTP client in Fedora Workstation is chrony,
> as you know full well. Unless that changes, we need timedatex. Even if
> we decide to drop chrony, we still need timedatex to ensure NTP is not
> broken for users who upgrade from F21 to F22. (Unless you have another
> plan for handling such an upgrade?)

Drop the NTP checkbox. Enable chrony by default. Done.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat


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