FreeBSD Port: ntp-dev ntp-stable

[Cy Schubert]

In message <43C12B5C.7040206 at alum.mit.edu>, Jed Clear writes:
> Would it be possible to resuscitate the ntp-dev port?
> 
> The -dev version, 4.2.0b, would have been nice to have for the leap 
> second as it had some fixes.  Although it was released on NYE, so it 
> might not have made it to ports in time anyway.  It looks like more 
> fixes are in the works based on the fallout of the recent NTP "pin ball" 
> that occurred.
> ftp://ftp.udel.edu/pub/ntp/ntp4/snapshots/ntp-dev/2005/12/ntp-dev-4.2.0b-2005
> 1231.tar.gz

Even if it would have been available, my priority right now is the upgraded 
tripwire port. Ntp is next (and fwanalog is next after ntp).

> 
> Was copying net/ntp to net/ntp-stable (pr 88627) the right thing to do? 
>   There is an ntp-stable, 4.2.0a, from August '05.
> ftp://ftp.udel.edu/pub/ntp/ntp4/snapshots/ntp-stable/2005/08/ntp-stable-4.2.0
> a-20050816.tar.gz

I'm still working on it.

> 
> As a heads up, it looks like there is supposed to be a 4.2.1 released 
> this month.  I wonder if the leap second fall out will delay it.

I'm not too sure about this.


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