Hello all,

I am using the ntpd applet in busybox but also wanted to enable the ntpdate program (yes I know use of ntpdate is not recommended in general but this is for a very specific use case). However I see that ntpdate is part of the "ntp" package and that the ntp package is blocked by BUSYBOX_NTPD. From rules/ntp.in:

menuconfig NTP
        tristate
        prompt "ntp                           "
        select OPENSSL          if NTP_CRYPTO
        select ROOTFS_VAR_CACHE if NTP_NTPD
        select LIBC_M
        select LIBC_RT
        select GCCLIBS_GCC_S
        select LIBMD
        depends on !BUSYBOX_NTPD || ALLYES

[...]
config NTP_NTPDATE
        bool
        prompt "install ntpdate"
        depends on NTP


Obviously one would not want to run two ntp services at the same time, but since busybox lacks an ntpdate command, there are cases where one would want to use ntpdate from the NTP package while still using Busybox's ntpd for everything else.