to 5.2.2026 klo 11.54 Martin-Éric Racine ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > > ti 11.6.2024 klo 11.53 Martin-Éric Racine ([email protected]) > kirjoitti: > > > > la 25. toukok. 2024 klo 13.49 Samuel Thibault ([email protected]) > > kirjoitti: > > > > > Martin-Éric Racine, le sam. 25 mai 2024 12:39:20 +0300, a ecrit: > > > > la 25. toukok. 2024 klo 10.17 Martin-Éric Racine > > > > ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > > > > > I cannot help but notice that the Hurd port still depends on 'ntpdate' > > > > > to sync its clock upon bootup. The key problem is that Debian has > > > > > migrated to 'src:ntpsec' which made 'bin:ntpdate' a transitional > > > > > package. However, 'rdate' seemingly has been ported to Hurd. Assuming > > > > > that it is verified to work, it could be usefull to migrate the Hurd > > > > > port to it. > > > > > > > > As far as I can tell, on Hurd i386, using 'rdate' without any option > > > > does nothing. The command just sits there and wait. > > > > > > > > $ sudo rdate -v pool.ntp.org > > > > > > > > However, if I use the -n option for SNTP, it returns something: > > > > > > > > $ sudo rdate -n -v pool.ntp.org > > > > Sat May 25 12:35:42 EEST 2024 > > > > rdate: adjust local clock by -0.005979 seconds > > > > > > According to the package description, > > > > > > “By default, rdate uses the RFC 868 TCP protocol.” > > > > > > so it apparently indeed needs to be told to use ntp, when targetting an > > > ntp server. > > > > > > > Unless I'm mistaken, this means that Hurd should be able to use a > > > > wrapper script similar to 'ntpdate-debian' to achieve the same result > > > > as the old reference 'ntpdate' Hurd has forked. > > > > > > Indeed. > > > > > > > It should be fairly trivial to implement and submit to the 'rdate' > > > > maintainer for inclusion, at which point Hurd's old NTP fork could be > > > > put to rest. > > > > > > Help welcome ;) > > > > I've looked into this, and I have found a simple fix: > > > > An /etc/network/if-up.d/ script is installed by ntpdate. It doesn't > > ship any init script. > > > > Therefore all we need is a similar if-up.d script that calls 'rdate -n > > pool.ntp.org' and we're good to go. > > > > If we really want to be fancy, we could add a > > /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ script to append the ISP's preferred > > NTP server instead of the above default. > > Thiago gave me the go-ahead to upload an NMU for rdate. See attached > debdiff. Would that work for us? Any obvious gotcha I missed? > > Martin-Éric > > PS: Thiago, there seems to be pending commits sitting in Salsa Git > that might be worth including. Should I include those too in the NMU > too, or would you rather merge these and the attached patch and > produce the release yourself?
I made a few additional changes to the above and attached the result as patches to the original bug report. Feedback is welcome. Martin-Éric
