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

[Alexander Sack]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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).
>

Thanks. Would be good to have this landing todayish or tomorrow so we
can include it in our milestone later this week :).

> Martin
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