Stale NTP software included in FreeBSD (RELEASE/STABLE/CURRENT)

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 04:10:24PM +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> All of the following FreeBSD releases included stale NTP software at the
> time of their release.
> 
>   8.3-RELEASE  (ntp 4.2.4p5)
>   8.4-RELEASE  (ntp 4.2.4p5)
>   9.0-RELEASE  (ntp 4.2.4p8)
>   9.1-RELEASE  (ntp 4.2.4p8)
>   9.2-RELEASE  (ntp 4.2.4p8)
>   9.3-RELEASE  (ntp 4.2.4p8)
>  10.0-RELEASE  (ntp 4.2.4p8)
> 
> ntp 4.2.4 is the version that shipped in all of the above releases and
> is also included in 10-STABLE and 11-CURRENT at present.  ntp 4.2.4 was
> superseded by the ntp 4.2.6 release on 12-Dec-2009.  Is there any
> interest in getting a supported version of the ntp software into the
> upcoming 10.1 release?  I would have thought that the latest patch
> release of the stable ntp version (4.2.6p5 24-DEC-2011) would be
> appropriate?  I know that the ntp folks are working on releasing 4.2.8
> but it isn't quite there yet.
> 
> I understand that this is a volunteer project and that volunteers don't
> have time to do everything.  I'm just waving the flag in case this is
> something that may have been overlooked.
> 
> Thank you to all those committers who look after vendor imports for all
> of the contributed software that helps make up the FreeBSD releases.
> 
> -- 
> John Marshall

One of the thing that makes updating ntp complicated it that is now depends on
bison extension which our old yacc (as of freebsd 8 and 9), newer
byacc (freebsd 10.0) does not support
FreeBSD 10.1 and FreeBSD current have a newer byacc version that does support the said
extension

regards,
Bapt
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