Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Control: severity -1 minor
Hello Bjarni Ingi Gislason.
Thanks for your bug report.
On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 05:20:05PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> Package: util-linux
> Version: 2.25.2-6
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> This is an old bug.
>
> In the file "/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh"
>
> "head" and "tail" are not available if "/usr" is not on the mounted
> root partition.
In current >= stable debian, the initramfs is supposed to (fsck and)
mount the /usr partition before init starts. This means /usr is always
available. Thus what you're reporting should be a non-issue.
>
> Use "sed" instead, for example
>
> sed -n -e '1,3 {$ p}'
If you think this is still a useful change, please feel free to submit a
patch upstream (which is the source for our hwclock.sh script).
>
> Since the addition of a test for "udev", the rest of the script is
> not executed, making the use of "hwclock" as the primary available
> source of time useless without changing the script.
Not sure how this part is related to the previous at all or what
you're talking about here.
What does udev have to do with head/tail usage?
Why does it make it "useless"?
Why do you want the script to be (fully) executed when you have udev
installed? (c.f. /lib/udev/rules.d/85-hwclock.rules )
(Please also note that the script is not even used in a default install,
see: systemctl cat hwclock )
>
> Should be fixed with a configuration variable.
Not sure I understand or agree with you on this, but if you think
you already know the solution to the problems you're reporting
please feel free to also include patches.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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