svn commit: r475132 - in head/net/ntp: . files

[Cy Schubert]

In message <1532313522.1344.109.camel at freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore writes:
> On Sun, 2018-07-22 at 19:30 -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > In message <201807230032.w6N0Wx2h091653 at repo.freebsd.org>, Ian
> > Lepore 
> > writes:
> > > 
> > > Author: ian (src committer)
> > > Date: Mon Jul 23 00:32:59 2018
> > > New Revision: 475132
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/475132
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   Add TrustedBSD MAC(4) support to ntpd.
> > >   
> > >   These changes add support for running ntpd as non-root, and
> > > improve support
> > >   for the --jaildir (chroot) option when running on freebsd. These
> > > correspond
> > >   to the changes made in the base system with r336525.
> > >   
> > >   The new patches in this change are exactly what was submitted
> > > upstream in
> > >   https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3509
> > >   
> > >   Approved by:	cy@
> > >   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16396
> > > 
> > > Added:
> > >   head/net/ntp/files/patch-ntpd_ntpd.c   (contents, props changed)
> > >   head/net/ntp/files/patch-sntp_m4_ntp__libntp.m4   (contents,
> > > props changed)
> > > Modified:
> > >   head/net/ntp/Makefile
> > > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Don't forget to do ntp-devel too.
> > 
> > 
>
> ntp-devel isn't a thing anymore.  The port is marked FORBIDDEN, if you
> remove that it spews errors about a dozen CVEs. I went looking for
> newer devel source, and the repos haven't been updated for almost 2
> years, and there are no newer archives in Dave Mills' stash at udel
> either. There just doesn't seem to be any devel work going on in ntp-
> land these days that's publicly visible except maintenance releases for
> security fixes from the stable branch.

Yeah, I totally forgot. Too much going on here.

Harlan Stenn, the current maintainer of NTP, was looking for donations 
to help with costs. Apparently he didn't receive enough donations and 
he had to get a job.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.