Re: [gpsd-dev] Time for a snap release due to the leapsecond change!

[Ed W]

On 01/07/2012 21:45, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Greg!
>
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:25:16 -0400
> Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > As much as I don't like having packages download bits, it might be
> > nice to have a leap second file and a way to grab the new one from
> > usno, so that release and leap second update can be decoupled.
>
> +1
>
> I update my local pci and vendor/products lists with update scripts.
> I update my ssl CAs and SMART disk tables with update scripts.
>
> So a simple CLI tool to do so has a lot of precedent.
>
> RGDS
> GARY

The chrony guys already had something like this debate (admittedly quite 
some months before the event):
http://listengine.tuxfamily.org/chrony.tuxfamily.org/chrony-dev/2012/02/msg00027.html

The executive summary is that nothing is free, it can "cost" as much to 
maintain a database as shipping a release or relying on imperfect 
information.

Ed