From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org, Fiona Klute <fiona.klute@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/httpdate: new package
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 21:52:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <auubI87hohwsCWIn@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104140941.2752868-1-angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 03:09:40PM +0100, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
> httpdate synchronizes the system time using the Date header of HTTP and
> HTTPS servers, which is useful on networks where NTP is blocked but web
> access is permitted. It is the successor of htpdate, from the same
> author: it delegates the network transport (HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2,
> proxies) to libcurl, and estimates the time from several servers.
>
> Like the htpdate package, add a SysV init script and a systemd unit,
> running httpdate with the arguments of HTTPDATE_ARGS, that can be
> overridden in /etc/default/httpdate. As httpdate does not write a
> pidfile, it runs in the foreground (-F), and start-stop-daemon
> backgrounds it and writes the pidfile.
>
> https://github.com/twekkel/httpdate
>
> Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Applied to master, thanks!
Best regards,
Thomas Petazzoni
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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2026-11-04 14:09 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/httpdate: new package Angelo Compagnucci
2026-11-04 14:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/htpdate: remove package Angelo Compagnucci
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