Snappy on RPi 2 Certificate Bug -- and other thoughts...

[Martin Pitt]

Alexander Sack [2015-02-16 12:53 +0100]:
> > I see this is build number 2, and there's not even a dozen apps in the
> > store, so this is just getting started on ARM. But I really like this
> > approach. It's just NTP that's missing from making this a usable system. If
> > NTP is seen as "too much bloat" ;-) well, perhaps there could be an NTP ARM
> > package added to the store, and like webmd, this could be included by
> > default in the image?
> 
> We agreed to include ntpdate in the core image, but then it was raised
> that we rather should include the systemd equivalent. Just talked to
> pitti and mvo and they are on it. Expect this to be in our
> devel-proposed image pretty soon.

Indeed ntpdate isn't very suitable for IoT-ish things which are
usually long-running. ntpdate just syncs the time once when connecting
to the network, but we usually want it to sync periodically; timesyncd
auto-adjusts the period depending on how "bad" the clock is, to
balance wakeups vs. correctness, and it's very small and we already
ship it (just not enable it). I'm currently discussing with the other
Debian maintainers how to enable it by default, but make it not run if
the ntp, opentp, or chrony packages are installed (to avoid redundant
syncs).

Martin

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