8.0-BETA1 Source Upgrade breaks NTP configuration

[Vincent Hoffman]

John Marshall wrote:
> Yesterday I source-upgraded a 7.2-RELEASE-p2 test i386 server to
> 8.0-BETA1.  I have just discovered that it broke that server's NTP
> service.
> 
> PROBLEM 1 - Existing /etc/ntp.conf overwritten
> 
> 
> Digging deeper, it looks like it may be due to the fact that this is a
> new supplied file and an entry for /etc/ntp.conf didn't exist in
> /var/db/mergemaster.mtree from the previous (7.2-RELEASE) run.  How
> should this be handled?
you are correct, There was a thread on -CURRENT about this recently see
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/008968.html
 I think there was discussion of a patch to mergemaster.
> 
> PROBLEM 2 - Default ntp.conf uses LOCAL clock
> 

Again much discussed, a new improved version using freebsd.pool.ntp.org
and commenting out the LOCAL option was posted to the freebsd-net list
not long ago by David MAlone, hopefully to be applied soon.

Vince