Bug 757

Summary: ntp is not installed by default
Product: Mageia Reporter: Barry Jackson <zen25000>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Anne Nicolas <ennael1>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: release_blocker CC: dmorganec, misc
Version: CauldronKeywords: Triaged
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: ntp CVE:
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Description Barry Jackson 2011-04-10 14:11:38 CEST
Description of problem:
In beta1 ntp is not installed by default. 
This causes the option in kde to enable it to be greyed out.
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Comment 1 D Morgan 2011-04-10 14:27:53 CEST
fixed by mikala now ntp can be installed through in the clock applet.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => dmorganec
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 2 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-12 08:03:01 CEST
ntp should be installed by default, IINM.

How did you install beta1?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED => (none)

Comment 3 James Kerr 2011-04-12 09:16:50 CEST
(In reply to comment #2)
> ntp should be installed by default, IINM.

IIRC it is necessary to explicitly select to use ntp, when setting the time zone during installation. It is only after doing so that ntp is installed.
Comment 4 Barry Jackson 2011-04-12 14:52:39 CEST
(In reply to comment #2)
Installed with DVD.
It's fine that it is installed when needed, but this only happened via MCC, so anyone using the clock applet settings were faced with a greyed out option.

If it is now fixed so that the clock applet can trigger the installation, then this is resolved for me.
Comment 5 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-12 20:44:39 CEST
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > ntp should be installed by default, IINM.
> 
> IIRC it is necessary to explicitly select to use ntp, when setting the time
> zone during installation. It is only after doing so that ntp is installed.

You're right. But I still think ntp should be installed by default.

@ennael: WDYT?

Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Comment 6 Michael Scherer 2011-05-05 16:26:48 CEST
What if someone want to use openntpd ?

CC: (none) => misc

Comment 7 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-05 17:54:07 CEST
Then he installs openntpd. The goal is to provide sane defaults and as they're not hardcoded the user can change them as he pleases.

A similar situation is, totem is installed by default in GNOME, if the user wants smplayer or vlc, he can install them and uninstall totem; the difference is, openntpd conflicts with ntp, so the "uninstall" part will happen automatically.
Ahmad Samir 2011-05-05 17:54:18 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => Triaged
Priority: Normal => release_blocker

Comment 8 Anne Nicolas 2011-05-05 20:29:48 CEST
In my opinion we do not need to hae it bydefault. After checking drakclock, looks like proposing it when choosing ntp is enough. And reporter above recognized it was ok.
Comment 9 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-05 20:50:38 CEST
Your call.

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED