ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?
 

Hi all,

The subject shall tell you already a lot but lastely I had to remove ntp
from my machine. I found this unfortunate and I'm just asking here if
this is normal or if this could have been anticipated?


Thanks,
JL


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On 2008-06-02 08:37 +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote:

> The subject shall tell you already a lot but lastely I had to remove
> ntp from my machine.

Could you please elaborate why you had to do that?

> I found this unfortunate and I'm just asking here
> if this is normal or if this could have been anticipated?

If you use the testing distribution, please note that ntp has been
removed from it because of a license issue¹. You should be able to
install the version from unstable², though.

Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448408
² http://packages.debian.org/sid/ntp


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Sven Joachim wrote:

On 2008-06-02 08:37 +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote:


The subject shall tell you already a lot but lastely I had to remove
ntp from my machine.


Could you please elaborate why you had to do that?


I found this unfortunate and I'm just asking here
if this is normal or if this could have been anticipated?


If you use the testing distribution, please note that ntp has been
removed from it because of a license issue¹. You should be able to
install the version from unstable², though.

Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448408
² http://packages.debian.org/sid/ntp


Well, I think installing openntpd solved this licensing issue. I'm using
lenny. Thanks, JL



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ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?
 

I just found this information out this morning when I did a
fresh install of Lenny and couldn’t find ntpdate. I think my heart
skipped a beat.


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# If you use the testing distribution,
please note that ntp has been


# removed from it because of a license issue¹.Â* You should
be able to


# install the version from unstable², though.


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Thanks for those links! I appreciate it.


Â*


This morning I kinda fell into a panic when I couldn’t
find ntpd and so I did some Google searching. It seems that people are
suggesting a move to OpenNTPD. I found this link about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNTPD.


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I understand the licensing issues and all, but I really
really need to have the information provided by `ntpq –p`. Time is very
important at my job. Does anyone know if OpenNTPD can provide this information?
I guess what I should be asking is: should I make a move to OpenNTPD or some other
NTP service? Or should I just install the deb files from Sid and go on like
nothing happened?


Â*


Any information or comments are welcome.


Â*


Thanks!


Chris Stackpole

ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?
 

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:59:33AM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote:

> This morning I kinda fell into a panic when I couldn't find ntpd and
> so I did some Google searching. It seems that people are suggesting a
> move to OpenNTPD. I found this link about it:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNTPD.
>
> I understand the licensing issues and all, but I really really need to
> have the information provided by `ntpq -p`. Time is very important at
> my job. Does anyone know if OpenNTPD can provide this information? I
> guess what I should be asking is: should I make a move to OpenNTPD or
> some other NTP service? Or should I just install the deb files from
> Sid and go on like nothing happened?
>

OpenBSD has on-line man pages. Their man pages are the definitive
documentation. Why not go to www.openbsd.org, click on man pages, run
an apropos of ntp and read all the relavant man pages. You will
probably find that it will do everything you need. Then you can install
Debian's port of it.

Doug.


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On 2008-06-04 17:59, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
> I just found this information out this morning when I did a fresh
> install of Lenny and couldn't find ntpdate. I think my heart skipped
> a beat.

I don't know what are the chances of ntp entering lenny again. From
looking at the bug report that triggered its removal, it is 'just' a
licence violation (ie. not functionality or security etc.).

As far as I can tell, the bug that prevents sid's version
transition to testing also affects etch [1,2]. So people upgrading from
etch at least don't get into a worse position than by sticking with etch.

Note, that the upstream bugs, quoted by the debian bug [2] have been
fixed [3] for ntp's present release candidate [4].

If you can live with the licence violation for the time being and hope
for it being fixed for lenny, you could just stick with the old version
from lenny or the current from sid and wait for the upgrade.

It would be welcome if someone more knowledgeable about this issue could
comment about the likelihood of a fix in debian.

Cheers,
Johannes

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ntp.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448408
[3] http://bugs.ntp.org/931
http://bugs.ntp.org/952
[4] http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads


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@ Johannes
Thanks for the links and information.


>OpenBSD has on-line man pages. Their man pages are the definitive
>documentation. Why not go to www.openbsd.org, click on man pages, run
>an apropos of ntp and read all the relavant man pages. You will
>probably find that it will do everything you need. Then you can
install
>Debian's port of it.


I have been doing some research on it and have already installed it on
this new system. I guess I was kind of hoping for community feed back on
what others were doing who previously relied on ntpd. Sometimes
replacement packages for software are better then the original.
Sometimes they are worse. Since I rely on NTP so much I can't really
afford to be on the worse side of things :-)

Anyway, the short story on my point of view is if the community is
moving onwards then I will too as long as I don't lose any
functionality. However, if this is just a short term problem and the ntp
package I use will be back then there is no reason for me to spend time
learning a new software package that I won't use. Since packages pop in
and out of testing all of the time I was hoping for the latter but
preparing for the first.

Thanks guys!
Chris


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OK,

So, if I *must* have ntp from ntp.org on my Lenny system, is there a
place I can get a working ".deb"? Can it be put in "non-free"?


Thanks!


Rick

On Jun 5, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:


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On 2008-06-04 17:59, Stackpole, Chris wrote:

I just found this information out this morning when I did a fresh
install of Lenny and couldn't find ntpdate. I think my heart skipped
a beat.


I don't know what are the chances of ntp entering lenny again. From
looking at the bug report that triggered its removal, it is 'just' a
licence violation (ie. not functionality or security etc.).

As far as I can tell, the bug that prevents sid's version
transition to testing also affects etch [1,2]. So people upgrading
from
etch at least don't get into a worse position than by sticking with
etch.


Note, that the upstream bugs, quoted by the debian bug [2] have been
fixed [3] for ntp's present release candidate [4].

If you can live with the licence violation for the time being and hope
for it being fixed for lenny, you could just stick with the old
version

from lenny or the current from sid and wait for the upgrade.

It would be welcome if someone more knowledgeable about this issue
could

comment about the likelihood of a fix in debian.

Cheers,
Johannes

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ntp.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448408
[3] http://bugs.ntp.org/931
http://bugs.ntp.org/952
[4] http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads


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On Mon June 23 2008 22:27:50 Rick Thomas wrote:
> So, if I *must* have ntp from ntp.org on my Lenny system, is there a
> place I can get a working ".deb"? Can it be put in "non-free"?

It's still available in Sid. You can either mess with apt's sources
or preferences, or just wget the following and "dpkg -i" it:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/ntp/ntp_4.2.4p4+dfsg-6_i386.deb

--Mike Bird


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If it's in Sid, what are the plans for getting it into Lenny-final?
As it stands, I can't use Lenny until this is fixed.


Rick

On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:10 AM, Mike Bird wrote:


On Mon June 23 2008 22:27:50 Rick Thomas wrote:

So, if I *must* have ntp from ntp.org on my Lenny system, is there a
place I can get a working ".deb"? Can it be put in "non-free"?


It's still available in Sid. You can either mess with apt's sources
or preferences, or just wget the following and "dpkg -i" it:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/ntp/ntp_4.2.4p4
+dfsg-6_i386.deb


--Mike Bird


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