Changelog
chrony (4.5-1ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium
* Merge with Debian unstable (LP: #2040371). Remaining changes:
- d/chrony.conf: Use ubuntu ntp pool and server.
(LP #1744664, #1754358)
- Set -x as default if unable to set time (e.g. in containers) (LP #1589780)
Chrony is a single service which acts as both NTP client (i.e. syncing the
local clock) and NTP server (i.e. providing NTP services to the network),
and that is both desired and expected in the vast majority of cases.
But in containers syncing the local clock is usually impossible, but this
shall not break the providing of NTP services to the network.
To some extent this makes chrony's default config more similar to 'ntpd',
which complained in syslog but still provided NTP server service in those
cases.
+ debian/chrony.service: allow the service to run without CAP_SYS_TIME
+ d/control: add new dependency libcap2-bin for capsh (usually
installed anyway, but make them explicit to be sure).
+ d/chrony.default: new option SYNC_IN_CONTAINER to not fall
back (Default off)
+ d/chronyd-starter.sh: wrapper to handle special cases in
containers and if CAP_SYS_TIME is missing. Effectively allows
running the NTP server in containers on a default installation
and avoid failing to sync time (or if allowed to sync, avoid
multiple containers fighting over it by accident).
+ d/install: Make chrony-starter.sh available on install.
+ d/docs, d/README.container: Provide documentation about the
handling of this case.
* Dropped:
- Depend on tzdata-legacy for reading leapsectz from
/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/UTC
(LP #2008076)
* d/rules, d/chrony.examples: Ship restricted service as an example
not installed to the system for use. (See LP #2051028)
-- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:45:01 -0800
