svn commit: r342139 - in head: . bin/date libexec/rc/rc.d share/man/man5 tools/build/mk tools/build/options usr.sbin usr.sbin/timed

[Cy Schubert]

In message <CANCZdfpugHrc7JALqAbyc-jJU33wpEjwtYBpr_eiAnwUJZEEAw at mail.gma
il.com>
, Warner Losh writes:
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> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 5:54 PM Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com wrote:
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> > In message <7a528b98-f554-4d34-a5cb-aa5496a89f3e at grosbein.net>, Eugene
> > Grosbein
> >  writes:
> > > 16.12.2018 4:34, George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
> > >
> > > > Author: gnn
> > > > Date: Sat Dec 15 21:34:40 2018
> > > > New Revision: 342139
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342139
> > > >
> > > > Log:
> > > >   Remove, the now very outdated, timed.
> > >
> > > > +20181211:
> > > > +   Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree.  Setting
> > > > +   the time with these deamons has been obsolete for over a decade.
> > > > +
> > >
> > > Is there any replacement software arounnd for timed protocol?
> > >
> > > I still run some telco hardware that uses my FreeBSD/timed as time source
> > > because it cannot use any other protocol, not NTP nor SNTP.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Maybe someone could add it to ports. Ideally maintaining upstream on
> > github.
> >
> > My initial thought was we could port the NetBSD version but theirs is
> > arguably just as ancient as ours.
> >
> > On a juxtaposed topic, how would one export an eclectic set of
> > directories from svn to git? My last experience doing that was painful
> > because there was more than one subdirectory involved and most of the
> > doc out there talks about only one.
> >
>
> I did it for CTM. If people want, I can do it for this too... But CTM was
> only one dir...
>
> Warner

Personally, I'm less interested in timed and more interested in how to.

Last time I tried it the first directory was easy. Adding the second 
subtree was the hard part.


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