[oe] How to create machine/customer specific ntp.conf files

[Christopher Larson]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>
wrote:

> I'm going round and round thinking about creating custom ntp.conf files.
>
> The existing recipe includes an ntp.conf file. My question is what is
> the best way to replace the on from the recipe with a machine specific
> config.
>
> There are a couple of config issues:
>
> 1) hardware may want to sync with an on board gps
> 2) A vendor may want to use their own ntp servers.
>
> Obviously, these need to apply only to specific machines and not all
> builds from the same set of layers.
>
> Any ideas how to do this without making the entire ntp package machine
> specific?
>
> Should we split the conf file into a separate recipe, sort of like gpsd?
>

Afaik that’d be the best way to handle it, iirc that’s how connman and the
like handle it too. Also remember to add it
to SIGGEN_EXCLUDERECIPES_ABISAFE in meta/conf/layer.conf if you go that
route, so stuff depending on it doesn’t get unnecessarily rebuilt when it
changes.
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Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics