Bug#1065567: timedatectl does not recognize ntpsec

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 ntpsec

Actually, I think it's better to just reassign the bug report and let 
Richard decide whether he closes it as wontfix or ships such an 
integration snippet.

Richard, if you are interested in shipping such a ntp-units.d snippet 
and you have further questions, please ask.

Michael

Am 06.03.24 um 19:22 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 12:53:47 -0500 Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version:  255.4-1
>> Tags: sid
>>
>> It looks like Systemd's timedatectl does not recognize ntpsec. Using
>> it results in 'NTP service: n/a':
>>
>> $ timedatectl
>>                Local time: Wed 2024-03-06 12:35:32 EST
>>            Universal time: Wed 2024-03-06 17:35:32 UTC
>>                  RTC time: Wed 2024-03-06 17:35:32
>>                 Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500)
>> System clock synchronized: yes
>>               NTP service: n/a
>>           RTC in local TZ: no
>>
>> According to <https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime#Installing_NTP>, ntpsec
>> is an option for Debian 11 and below; and default for Debian 12 and
>> above.
>>
>> I searched for an upstream bug at <https://github.com/systemd/systemd>
>> (is that the right place?), but there were no relevant hits. See
>> <https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+ntpsec>.
>>
>> Also see <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/03/msg00145.html>.
>> That's the debian-users mailing list discussion with GW's comment.
> 
> If an NTP service want's to be recognized by timedated, it needs to ship 
> a config snippet in /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/
> See man systemd-timedated
> 
> 
>> LIST OF NETWORK TIME SYNCHRONIZATION SERVICES
>>        systemd-timesyncd will look for files with a ".list" extension 
>> in ntp-units.d/ directories. Each file is parsed as a list of unit 
>> names, one per
>           ^
>            this is a typo, should be systemd-timedated [1]
>>        line. Empty lines and lines with comments ("#") are ignored. 
>> Files are read from /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/ and the 
>> corresponding directories
>>        under /etc/, /run/, /usr/local/lib/. Files in /etc/ override 
>> files with the same name in /run/, /usr/local/lib/, and /usr/lib/. 
>> Files in /run/
>>        override files with the same name under /usr/. Packages should 
>> install their configuration files in /usr/lib/ (distribution packages) or
>>        /usr/local/lib/ (local installs).
>>
>>        Example 1. ntp-units.d/ entry for systemd-timesyncd
>>
>>            # /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/80-systemd-timesync.list
>>            systemd-timesyncd.service
>>
>>        If the environment variable $SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES is 
>> set, systemd-timesyncd will parse the contents of that variable as a
>>        colon-separated list of unit names. When set, this variable 
>> overrides the file-based list described above.
> 
> 
> systemd-timesyncd and chrony do this properly.
> 
> # apt-file search /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/
> chrony: /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/50-chrony.list
> systemd-timesyncd: /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/80-systemd-timesync.list
> 
> 
> I've CCed the ntpsec maintainers.
> If they have interest in shipping such an integration, then we can 
> reassign the bug report. Otherwise I'll just close it, as there is 
> nothing we can do on the systemd side
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31658

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