On Sun, 03 May 2015 17:23:30 +0100 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > Control: reassign -1 clock-setup > Control: retitle -1 Missing support for systems without battery-backed RTC > > On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:40 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Debian installations on hardware with no (battery-backuped) RTC > > is likely an installation that hasn't network connection. > > What makes you think that? > > > So please do not push (too hard) > > for "you MUST allway known what time it is" > > > > Make it possible to do installs on hardware without RTC > > and no access to a NTP server. > > Of course this should still be supported. > > > Installing fake-hwclock https://packages.debian.org/stretch/fake-hwclock > > on the absence of the a RTC > > > > Avoiding filesystem checks when no RTC present would also be good. > > Simular as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767040 > > Good point. > > I'm retitling this because we now have three small related changes > wanted in the installer: > > 1. Install/enable NTP client > 2. Disable hwclock-save.service > 3. Disable e2fsck time check > > I think these could all be done in clock-setup, so I'm reassigning to > that.
FWIW: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=experimental&id=929bece53261ddd2797d4f3518a05a88704c5b01 http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=experimental&id=5ea1b2bd1c57f9d3095252229c4ba1e50a7248d6 We enable timesyncd by default now and have dropped the hwclock-save.service in systemd for the systemd version targetted at stretch. Is there anything left which needs to be done? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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