[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] NTP configuration for client and server

[Karl MacMillan]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:13 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 09:48 -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 16:02 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 15:35 -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> > > > NTP configuration for client and server.
> > > 
> > > Can you put the ntp.conf template in a file, it makes it much easier to
> > > customize the configuration if you have to edit a file instead of a
> > > python script.
> > > 
> > 
> > I could, but currently we don't have a good place to put that for the
> > client. So I agree that the template file is nicer, but unless you fell
> > this is very important I'd rather not spend the time doing it.
> 
> It's nice to be able to add a custom package that provide the "right"
> ntp.conf file for your setup. Maybe we can add instead an option to
> point to a different template?
> Anyway I guess we can have /usr/share/ipa on the client as well, would
> that be a problem?
> 

I would want to put it in /usr/share/ipa/client to avoid two packages
spamming the same directory. Of course, that means that neither package
owns /usr/share/ipa (which I guess is already the case).

And by custom package, do you mean a separate package from
freeipa-client or a rebuilt package. A separate package wouldn't work
because it could overwrite the existing template and if you rebuild the
package you can change the python.

Any packaging experts have opinions on this?

Basically - I agree with the goal, I just don't think we have time right
now.

Karl