Ubuntu
chrony package

  1. Bug #1744072
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 1744072

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Paul Gear (paulgear) wrote : Re: [Bug 1744072] Re: MIR Chrony in 18.04

On 22/01/18 17:27, ChristianEhrhardt wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> I subscribed you as I wanted to clarify something.
> Back in [1], you mentioned it was important to you to get ntpdate (single shot cli) and ntpd (daemon) to work together nicely for the ntp charm.
>
> Now if the ntp charm would be modified to use chrony from 18.04 onward,
> would that break it completely as chrony has no direct ntpdate
> counterpart that I'd know of?
>
> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1706818
>
 Hi Christian,

My current plan is to write a new reactive charm for chrony rather than
trying to retrofit the ntp charm to support chrony.  I would expect that
the functionality which relies on ntpdate will drop out.  I don't have a
timeframe for this, however.

Regards,
Paul