[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] What's up with hwclock?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> [Full proposed fix, will work only when all steps are deployed]
> 
> Step 1: Get util-linux to run the first hwclock script at the absolutely
>    earliest possible moment (which is as soon as /dev is available. I think
>    S05 is about right).   The second script doesn't matter to us, but it
>    should be run after /etc is writeable because it will be only useful for
>    doing /etc/adjtime things.

If you can represent this using the init.d script dependency notation,
we can use insserv to reorder the boot to see how early the scripts
can possibly run.

PS: I hope the your package maintainence isn't often affected by your
  strong emotions.  Would be a shame to do the wrong thing in affect.