bug#45794: [PATCH 0/1] services: openntpd: Remove support for deprecated "-s" option.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Simon South <simon@simonsouth.net> skribis:

> This patch removes support for OpenNTPD's deprecated "-s" command-line option
> and the corresponding "allow-large-adjustment?" field from Guix's
> openntpd-configuration record type.
>
> Previously this option allowed OpenNTPD to make a single, arbitrarily large
> adjustment to the clock at startup. In the current release this option has
> been disabled[0] in favour of the use of authenticated constraints, and
> configuring a service with "(allow-large-adjustment? #t)" now causes this
> message to appear in /var/log/ntpd:
>
>     -s option no longer works and will be removed soon.
>     Please reconfigure to use constraints or trusted servers.
>
> For systems like the ROCK64 that lack a battery-backed clock, generally the
> solution is to replace the "allow-large-adjustment?" option with a setting
> like
>
>     (constraint-from '("www.gnu.org"))
>
> which will give OpenNTPD an independent estimate of the current time and allow
> it to evaluate the trustworthiness of the configured NTP servers.
>
> [0] 
> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.c?rev=1.127&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Thanks for explaining.

> * gnu/services/networking.scm (openntpd-configuration): Remove
> "allow-large-adjustment?" field.
> (openntpd-shepherd-service): Remove use of "allow-large-adjustment?"
> configuration field and "-s" daemon option.
> * tests/networking.scm (%openntpd-conf-sample): Remove
> "allow-large-adjustment?" field.
> * doc/guix.texi (Networking Services)[openntpd-service-type]: Remove
> "allow-large-adjustment?" field from sample configuration.
> [openntpd-configuration]: Remove description of "allow-large-adjustment?"
> field.

Applied, thanks!

Ludo’.