base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

[Michael Biebl]

On Sun, 03 May 2015 17:23:30 +0100 Ben Hutchings <ben at 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

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