Bug 28922 - Replace ntp with ntpsec
Summary: Replace ntp with ntpsec
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: release_blocker enhancement
Target Milestone: Mageia 9
Assignee: All Packagers
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Reported: 2021-05-14 23:25 CEST by David Walser
Modified: 2023-04-13 16:53 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: ntp-4.2.8p15-1.mga8.src.rpm
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Description David Walser 2021-05-14 23:25:28 CEST
Fedora 34 replaced classic NTP with a more secure replacement:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NtpReplacement

Note that, if importing this package from Fedora, it will need quite a bit of work to adapt it to Mageia.

Ideally it would be nice to allow people to get out of the business of editing the packaged ntp.conf, and support using /etc/ntp.d like upstream does.  Our installer and drak tools would have to be adapted if we make this change.
David Walser 2021-05-14 23:25:39 CEST

Version: 8 => Cauldron
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 9

Comment 1 David Walser 2021-05-15 01:47:35 CEST
(In reply to David Walser from comment #0)
> Ideally it would be nice to allow people to get out of the business of
> editing the packaged ntp.conf, and support using /etc/ntp.d like upstream
> does.  Our installer and drak tools would have to be adapted if we make this
> change.

According to Ubuntu, chrony can do this now too:
"Chronyd’s configuration can now be fragmented. Please see
/etc/chrony/conf.d/README for more information.
NTP sources can be specified in /etc/chrony/sources.d. Please see
/etc/chrony/sources.d/README for more information."

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/hirsute-hippo-release-notes/19221
Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2021-05-15 20:02:37 CEST
'ntp' has no fixed maintainer, and given the wider nature of this request, assigning this globally.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 3 Jean-Pierre Aubin 2022-08-09 17:39:29 CEST
UP
Neoclust and I are working on replacing ntp with ntpsec.

CC: (none) => jean-pierre

Comment 4 David Walser 2023-04-13 16:53:47 CEST
Indeed this was handled last August it looks like.  Updated to 1.2.2 in January by me, and spec file fixes made by David Geiger in March.

TODO: document in Mageia 9 release notes
TODO: adapt Mageia installer to wrote to ntp.d and chrony/sources.d instead of ntp.conf or chrony.conf

Priority: Normal => release_blocker


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