Subject: [bug#76892] [PATCH v1] gnu: ntp: Fix crash.

From: Ian Eure <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:48:10 -0700

Hi Jakob, Leo,

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 04:19:51PM +0100, Jakob Kirsch via 
> Guix-patches via wrote:
>> ntpd segfaults at boot so here is a patch to fix that.
>
>> From 3ebd9d493240978d5f2b14e55ed63754c43151c3 Mon Sep 17 
>> 00:00:00 2001
>> Message-ID: 
>> <3ebd[email-masked]>
>> From: Jakob Kirsch <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 16:16:43 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH v1] gnu: ntp: Fix crash.
>> 
>> * gnu/packages/ntp.scm (ntp): Add patch.
>> * 
>> gnu/packages/patches/ntp-fix-dereferencing-the-wrong-variable.patch: 
>> Add patch.
>> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Register patch.
>
> Is the only change in this patch that we build ntp with the new 
> patch
> file? And the rest of it is changes to indentation? Or are there 
> other
> changes too?

Here’s the upstream bug(s): 
https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3928 
https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3968

I think this patch is fine, we might also consider rolling back to 
4.2.8p17.

-- Ian