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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] livecd + ntp
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:57:40
Message-Id: 4612E9DA.6090804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] livecd + ntp by Joshua Hoblitt
1 Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
2 > Hi Folks,
3 >
4 > I'd like to request that net-misc/ntp be included in 2007.0
5 > livecd-stage1-* .specs. The rational being that the first thing I
6 > always do when installing a new system is set the clock "by hand" with
7 > `date`, unpack the stage3 tarball, chroot, emerge ntp, and then run
8 > ntpdate. This is probably a little on the paranoid side but it is
9 > _really_ irritating when file mtimes are screwed up. It would be nice
10 > to have the entire ntp package or at least the ntpdate binary (static,
11 > ~60k) on the livecd. Is this possible?
12
13 It's just a *bit* late to get something included in 2007.0.
14
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16 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
17 Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
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Re: [gentoo-releng] livecd + ntp Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@××××××××××.edu>