On 22.7.2020 19:11, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 11:46 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:04 AM Michel Alexandre Salim michel@michel-slm.name wrote:
On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 10:43 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 8:37 AM Michael Catanzaro < mcatanzaro@gnome.org> wrote:
I think a change to remove chronyd in favor of timesyncd might be accepted for Workstation.
It's much simpler. Off hand I can't think of what Workstation would be missing out on.
That would bring us in line with Ubuntu, so - given that Fedora likely has a newer systemd than Ubuntu (e.g. Ubuntu 20.04 only has systemd 245.4, F32 has 245.6) -- if it works for them, and has been working for several releases, it could be worth a Change proposal for F34.
Wearing my sysadmin hat, this would simplify our logic for configuring NTP clients quite a bit, as basically most of our Linux clients would then be on timesyncd (we try to stick to the distro default but just override the config).
Is is possible there's a significant minority who have workflows that explicitly depend on chrony? If it's not possible, then I'd support the working group just making the substitution for Workstation 33.
We literally just got done rewriting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_base_service_manipulation (and the automated version of that test) to use chronyd on the basis that it's a reliable service that we can rely on to exist in all tested editions :/
Never take anything for granted ;)
JBG