From: Atanas Vladimirov Subject: Re: [NEW] net/chrony -> Fwd: Chrony 4.8 for ports To: Thomas Kupper Cc: ports@openbsd.org, Stuart Henderson Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:50:26 +0300 On 2026-08-30 13:36, Atanas Vladimirov wrote: > On 2026-08-30 09:07, Thomas Kupper wrote: >> Good Morning, >> >> A few days ago chrony 4.9 was released with support for OpenBSD >> including pledge(2) support and support for refclock driver for >> OpenBSD timedelta sensors. >> >> I'd very much welcome feedback and testing of chrony. >> >> For anyone not knowing what chrony is used for, here a short >> introduction: >> >> chrony is a versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol >> (NTP). It can synchronise the system clock with NTP servers, reference >> clocks (e.g. GPS receiver), and manual input using wristwatch and >> keyboard. It can also operate as an NTPv4 (RFC 5905) server and peer >> to provide a time service to other computers in the network. >> >> The news about 4.9 (and previous versions) can be found at : >> https://chrony-project.org/news.html >> >> Find attached the OpenBSD ports archive for it. >> >> It run under the user _chrony which would have to be added to the >> user.list beforehand with user ID 906, the lowest unused ID as of >> today/2026-08-30. >> >> --- >> diff -us infrastructure/db/user.list{.orig,} >> --- infrastructure/db/user.list.orig Sun Aug 30 07:49:54 2026 >> +++ infrastructure/db/user.list Sun Aug 30 07:49:15 2026 >> @@ -414,3 +414,4 @@ >> 903 _iaxmodem _iaxmodem telephony/iaxmodem >> 904 _neighbot _neighbot net/neighbot >> 905 _pgweb _pgweb www/pgweb >> +906 _chrony _chrony net/chrony >> --- >> >> The archive's content corresponds to tag 4.9 on my git repo >> https://git.sr.ht/~patient0/chrony-OpenBSD-ports >> >> A note regarding dependencies: >> >> - it links against gnutls and nettle. On -current gnutls links against >> nettle 4 (security/nettle) and that is how this port is setup at the >> moment. >> On OpenBSD < 8.0 gnutls links against nettle 3, named >> security/libnettle. If one wants to compile chrony for OpenBSD < 8.0 >> you would have to change the Makefile accordingly. >> Does it make sense to adapt the Makefile to handle this situation or >> is handling -current only recommended? >> >> >> Have an excellent Sunday >> /Thomas > > Hey Thomas, thanks! > > I'm already testing your port (on -current) and it works for me :). > Good job! > > Have a wonderfull Sunday, > Atanas Hey Stuart, Do you think that we can have this chrony 4.9 port merged? Or there are things that have to be addressed before that? Best wishes, Atanas