The timer is expired. I have marked this as closed approved. Thanks to everyone that looked at this. I appreciate the effort.
Brian Utterback wrote: > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > Upgrade NTP to Version 4 > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Brian Utterback > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 17 April, 2009 > 4. Technical Description > Upgrade NTP to version 4. > > > This project proposes to remove the current version 3.4 NTP > deliverables and replace them with version 4.2.5. The current > version in Solaris was released 11 years ago. The NTP project > has continued to advance the code base for the entire time. > > This will be done by removing the current SUNWntpr and SUNWntpu > packages from the ON consolidation and move them to the more > appropriate SFW consolidation. In addition to the replacements > for the current deliverables, the packages will include man pages > and HTML documentation. > > While not 100% backwards compatible, the incompatibilities in the > configuration file are mostly semantic in nature rather than > syntatic, with the only major exceptions being in Sun added features, > which we will not be adding. However, because of the popularity of > the "slewalways" feature, the startup method will detect the > presence of this Sun added keyword and configure the NTP daemon to > use the NTP version 4 equivalent. > > The NTP community project, while not having an explicit requirement > for backwards compatibility, in 11 years > of development, including a full re-write of the configuration > code, has had no major incompatibilities were introduced. > > The NTP community is very receptive to contributed code and > integration of features needed by Solaris. I am a committer on > the NTP project and I expect to work with the community to > push all fixes and changes back into the community codebase. > > While the man pages are derived from the HTML documentation, they > are specific to these deliverables and as far as possible complete and > accurate regarding them. The HTML documenation, is delivered "as is" > and may or may not reflect the deliverables. A notice to this effect is > included in the man pages. > > This work is being sponsored by chris.armes at sun.com. > > This project seeks a minor release binding. > > This project supercedes PSARC 2001/162, which should considered > withdrawn. > > 6. Resources and Schedule > 6.4. Steering Committee requested information > 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: > SFW > 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack > 6.6. ARC Exposure: open > -- blu "Mark my words, nanotechnology is going to be huge!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom
