[NEW] net/chrony -> Fwd: Chrony 4.8 for ports

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/Thomas


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Subject: Chrony 4.8 for ports
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:53:28 +0000
From: Mailing Lists <mailing.list@kupper.li>
To: ports@openbsd.org

Hi,

Based on Shaun Ren's GH OpenBSD code
(https://github.com/shaunren/chrony) I have created a ports package/git
for Chrony 4.8.

There are a few questions that came up.

Regarding Chrony's source code:

First off, the author - Shaun Ren - is for me just a name on a Github
profile, no email or anything else. On www.mail-archive.com there is a
Shaun Ren with entries from almost ten years ago on the linux-kernel
mailing list with a @linux.com address. I opened an issue on GH 10 days
ago informing him/her that I did create the port and asked a) if it is
ok and b) if yes, if Shaun would add the copyright to all the files that
where modified.

What are the rules regarding the copyright of code and contact data
needed from a code owner? Shaun added a copyright to the file
sys_openbsd.c dating back to 2021 but not to now other file modified.

Generally: Is there an interest to have Chrony in OpenBSD ports (if the
copyright situation can be cleared)? Second if yes, would someone be
willing to review Shaun's code? I'm not a skilled programmer and for me
it looks and behaves ok. Certainly on the server it runs good, the
numbers look find (for a VM in the cloud), NTS as a client and as a
server works as expected. Shaun uses adjfreq(2) to adjust the clock and
implemented privilege drop.

It would be interesting to see it tested in very high load or with
handling of lots request, how it behaves.

Regarding the port itself:

Chrony runs under its own user, _chrony. For now I manually added it to
infrastructure/db/user.list. Alternative the already existing user _ntp
could be used. Is there a preference to one or the other? The _chrony
user id is 902.

I could be the maintainer of the package but if bigger Chrony code
changes are necessary, help would be needed.

If anyone is interested, the port files are attached and the git repo
can be found at sourcehut:

https://git.sr.ht/~patient0/chrony-OpenBSD-ports, branch 'openbsd'

For anyone still interested:

There is another branch called 'flavor/nts-pool' that patches Chrony 4.8
to take part in the experimental NTP NTS pool of Trifecta Tech
Foundation (ntpd-rs creator, https://trifectatech.org, I have no
affiliation). At the moment I run two OpenBSD virtual servers (and a
patched NetBSD) which take part in that project.


/Thomas