Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 09:58:11 +1000 From: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Will 10.2 also ship with a very stale NTP? Message-ID: <20150710235810.GA76134@rwpc16.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] It's me again with my annual NTP whinge. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-October/075580.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-September/079830.html Here we are at the start of another release cycle and 10-STABLE still includes (patched) ntp 4.2.4p8 software that was released in December 2009. - ntp 4.2.6 superseded 4.2.4 and was also released in December 2009. - ntp 4.2.8 superseded 4.2.6 and was released in December 2014. Will 10.2 be released with a version of ntp that is two generations old and that has been legacy since December 2009? I am really pleased to see that there has been some recent activity with respect to ntp in -CURRENT, and that the latest point release (4.2.8p3) has actually been imported. Is there any likelihood of this being MFC'd before releng/10.2 is branched? Thank you for your patience with me, and thank you to committers who are working in this space but perhaps not with an eye to -STABLE. I just think it's really sad that we are shipping very old ntp software with lots of patches when a current release is available. I also note that phk@ was working on an ntp client which he hoped to offer as a replacement but that is presumably not ready yet. I also note that we have current versions of ntp available in ports; but I'm talking about what we ship in the base system. -- John Marshall [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlWgXBIACgkQw/tAaKKahKIpJACcDAOfL1uj1Yw8pMivWl8nyomg cH4Anit8mcTW8/KyYjHo5Vsfy2ItVi3x =S86g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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