#438883 chrony: Please put the NTP server list into an external file

Package:
chrony
Source:
chrony
Description:
Versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol
Submitter:
Hilmar Preusse
Date:
2025-05-23 09:07:01 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#438883#5
Date:
2007-08-20 14:52:25 UTC
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Hi,

The file /etc/chrony/chrony.conf contains the list of the NTP servers. This
is the only customization I've done in that file. Every time, when a new
chrony.conf file from Debian upstream is out I have to merge my list into
the new chrony.conf file.
It would be nice, if the list could be put outside into a second file, which
would be sourced by the chrony.conf, like it is done with
/etc/chrony/chrony.keys, to avoid the necessary adaption,

Thanks for reading,
  Hilmar
#438883#10
Date:
2007-08-20 15:38:49 UTC
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Thank you for your suggestion.  I will forward it to the author.
#438883#15
Date:
2015-11-16 22:55:15 UTC
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tags 438883 wontfix
thanks

We do have in Debian the necessary facilities to merge your custom
changes to a newly available configuration file. For chrony, we
handle that via ucf.

Anyway, thanks for the proposition Hilmar!

Cheers,
Vincent
#438883#22
Date:
2025-05-23 08:57:57 UTC
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It would be very reasonable to keep local changes separate from
the files included in Debian's chrony package. Ucf implies that
somebody manually edits chrony.conf. On large scale installations
it is best practice to avoid modifying the files included in the
package, and to provide a local config file to be included instead.

Others can do better, eg ntpsec.