On 02/26/2015 03:28 AM, Nathan Kinder wrote: > Hi, > > The two attached patches address some issues that affect > ipa-client-install when syncing time from the NTP server. Now that we > use ntpd to perform the time sync, the client install can end up hanging > forever when the server is not reachable (firewall issues, etc.). These > patches address the issues in two different ways: > > 1 - Don't attempt to sync time when --no-ntp is specified. > > 2 - Implement a timeout capability that is used when we run ntpd to > perform the time sync to prevent indefinite hanging. > > The one potentially contentious issue is that this introduces a new > dependency on python-subprocess32 to allow us to have timeout support > when using Python 2.x. This is packaged for Fedora, but I don't see it > on RHEL or CentOS currently. It would need to be packaged there. > > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4842 > > Thanks, > -NGK
Thanks for Patches. For the second patch, I would really prefer to avoid new dependency, especially if it's not packaged in RHEL/CentOS. Maybe we could use some workaround instead, as in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3733270/python-subprocess-timeout ? Martin _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel
