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[Jorge Niedbalski <427775@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For MAAS users. A quick workaround that you can use for this, is to
setting NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF to NO via the generic preseed file.

Edit /etc/maas/preseeds/generic, add a late_command into the file

d-i     preseed/late_command string true && \
in-target sed -i 's/NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes/NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no/'
/etc/default/ntpdate

This change will force the usage of /var/lib/ntpdate/default.dhcp ,
which is being written correctly by MAAS.

The proper solution for this fix would be to fix the ntpdate package to
fall back to /etc/default/ntpdate.dhcp if it doesn't find any ntp.conf
configuration by default.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427775

Title:
  ntpdate.dhcp always ignored

Status in “ntp” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 9.04, affects the ntpdate binary package

  Problem: Using dhcp a file ntpdate.dhcp is created but never used.

  By default NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF in /etc/default/ntpdate is set to
  "yes". This has the following consequences:

  /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian parses /etc/default/ntpdate and checks for
  /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp /etc/ntp.conf /etc/openntpd/ntpd.conf if
  NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF is set to yes.  By default ntpd is not installed
  therefore there is no  /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp /etc/ntp.conf or
  /etc/openntpd/ntpd.conf. ntpdate-debian then defaults to the
  NTPSERVERS set in /etc/default/ntpdate, namely "ntp.ubuntu.com". Only
  if NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF is set to "no" there will be a check for
  /etc/default/ntpdate.dhcp and consequently the server supplied by dhcp
  be used.

  I propose to set NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF to "no" by default. If ntpd is
  installed, this will override the use of ntpdate and
  /etc/ntpd.conf.dhcp and /etc/default/ntpdate.dhcp will both be created
  by DHCP anyway, therefore both packages will use the DHCP supplied
  servers in any case.

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