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ntp package

  1. Bug #61619
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 61619

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z (steveriley-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: ntpdate in -minimal should have an alternative

Probably like the rest of you, I stumbled across this bug when I was looking for a way to remove ntpdate from my system because I'm using ntp, and I don't want the meta package to go away. Here's a workaround.

1. Install the package equivs. This is a simple tool to create trivial Debian packages.

2. Create the configuration file for the ntpdate dummy package:
| $ equivs-control ntpdate-dummy

3. Open ntpdate-dummy in your favorite editor and make these changes:
| Package: ntpdate-dummy
| Version: 9.9
| Provides: ntpdate
| Description: Fake ntpdate; see Launchpad bug 61619

4. Now build the ntpdate dummy package:
| $ equivs-build ntpdate-dummy

5. Install it:
| $ sudo dpkg -i ntpdate-dummy_9.9_all.deb

6. Remove ntpdate:
| $ sudo apt-get purge ntpdate

(Inspiration: comment #16 in bug 556372)