Bug#591772: hbase: recommend ntp

[Damien Raude-Morvan]

Hi Thomas,

Le jeudi 05 août 2010 15:13:28, Thomas Koch a écrit :
> >From HBase requirements:
> http://hbase.apache.org/docs/current/api/overview-summary.html#requirements
> 
> The clocks on cluster members should be in basic alignments. Some skew is
> tolerable but wild skew could generate odd behaviors. Run NTP  on your
> cluster, or an equivalent.
> 
> Which packages should I recommend exactly?

Chrony and OpenNTPD both Provides: time-daemon.
(also listed here in Debian Policy [1]). Regarding NTP, there is a existing 
bug [2] for support of this virtual package.

So I would recommend using :
Recommends: ntp | time-daemon

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/316549

Cheers,
-- 
Damien - Debian Developper
http://wiki.debian.org/DamienRaudeMorvan
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