timedatex replacing systemd-timedated for NTP packages

Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime at redhat.com
Thu Nov 27 10:28:52 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 18:26 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.
That would be quite a big security issue.

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