Re: git: b1c95af45488 - main - rc.conf: correct $ntp_leapfile_sources

From: Philip Paeps <philip_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 07:26:45 UTC
On 2023-12-07 15:06:58 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 11:34 PM Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 2023-12-07 14:26:05 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote:
>>> We should point to bipm
>>> https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list since 
>>> they
>>> are
>>> the source of truth, no?
>>
>> I went for the IANA copy because data.iana.org is a much shorter and
>> trustworthy looking URL.  And it's also where other operating systems
>> get their copies.
>>
>> (There's a thread on the IANA tz mailing list about how up to date 
>> the
>> IANA copy is.)
>>
>
> Shorter URLs aren't necessarily better..  we should have this be a 
> list
> though...

We could also mirror our own copy on freebsd.org, but then we have to 
keep it up to date.

That's probably the best solution.  Let me ponder this for a bit.

Philip

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