* Phil Pennock <openbsd-misc-p...@spodhuis.org> [2012-03-04 21:05]: > On 2012-03-04 at 19:30 +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Phil Pennock <openbsd-misc-p...@spodhuis.org> [2012-03-04 13:23]: > > > https://github.com/syscomet/openntpd > > > > please note that it takes a bit more for a new portable release, > > namely, at least tests on the major platforms. > > Absolutely. Couldn't find a test suite, or a changelog of the portable > changes, so went about reconstructing via code archaeology. > > Thus the first commit simply being "got it working on one platform". > Can you point me to a test suite or anything else used for the portable > production?
unfortunately not - i wasn't really involved with the portable. > > > The current CVS of ntpd was imported to the initial branch "openbsd" and > > > I branched "master" from that. I then pulled in the imsg stuff from > > > current OpenBSD and then went through the FreeBSD Ports packages, > > > applying the changes which seemed sane (almost all of them). Only > > > *incompatibility* with upstream is storing drift information as parts > > > per million, for compatibility with reference ntpd. > > this is an inacceptable difference between a portable and the native > > one. > Alternative viewpoint: OpenNTPD using an equivalent file format to the > reference implementation but with different meanings of the numbers is > an unacceptable difference. Switching to the compatible difference and > documenting the scale of the numbers lets administrators switch from one > implementation to the other while maintaining the same drift file. the format of the drift file is an entirely different discussion (and I have no strong opinion on it). changing this between the native and the portable remains absolutely inacceptable. > > also, I'd be interested what the other changes are. > They're briefly summarised in Porting.txt, which is linked to as > README.md, so when you visit the web-page above, you'll see them. pls just drop in in my mailbox (henning@) -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
