Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > Yes, such change need to be done very carefully and in stages, to > avoid dependency loops. See #542602 for a discussion on the ntp order > relative to $syslog.
After some research I'm tending to think that many (if not most) of the scripts that require $time, shouldn't (or at least should only require hwclockfirst). I also don't see that we still need two hwclock scripts. Then ntp, chrony, and hwclock could provide $time and only those packages that really need exact time should require it. If the clock gets stepped at bootup that fact will be quite obvious in the logs so $syslog should be able live with the rare stepping. I think I'll have chrony require hwclockfirst and add "X-Start-Before"s for packages such as dovecot that stepping might break (so if you know of such a package tell me). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj8n8pp5....@thumper.dhh.gt.org
