Sorry then. But it still means ntp is available during the installation
process (i.e. ntpdate is in the PATH) but I can't install it on the
"destination" system, right? (if it's the case, how can I do it (with
the automatic procedure) ?)
Thanks
Charles
Le 18/05/2011 17:35, Dieter Plaetinck a écrit :
On Wed, 18 May 2011 15:55:45 +0200
Charles<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I know that there were discussions about the size of the installation
image but I would like to see the ntp package included in core (i.e.
in the installation media at least).
Why? Because NFS is and NFS needs synchronized clocks.
I am using Arch in a cluster and other services (like authorization
service) need it.
When you install a bunch of machine, there are not necessarily
synchronized and it makes the installation process more complicated
(packages that need the synchronization like NFS can't be activated
before ntp is installed after the system install it-self).
Also, this package is only 448K.
Are you convinced? Who and how are decided this kind of things?
Thanks
Charles
ntp should not go into core because it does not belong in core.
ntp should be included on the images, and it already is... and has been
for a looooong time.
http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/tree/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.i686
http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/tree/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.x86_64
Dieter
