[Bug 1541532] Re: migrate UTC setting from /etc/default/rcS to adjtime

[Martin Pitt]

bzipitidoo [2016-05-13 20:35 -0000]:
> Checking, my system had no /etc/adjtime file.  Shouldn't
> this file have been created during the upgrade?

Yes, it should. There are some upgrade scenarios where it isn't
though, and unfortunately that is painfully hard to fix. This is being
tracked in bug 1572752.

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Title:
  migrate UTC setting from  /etc/default/rcS to adjtime

Status in installation-guide package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in lupin package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in mbr package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in mbr package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  This has been an Ubuntu delta in systemd and perhaps other Ubuntu
  packages for a long time. But /etc/default/rcS is a SysV-ism, and no
  other setting in there is relevant. Steps:

   * Bump the version guard in systemd.conf for migrating the actual setting (keep until 16.04 LTS)
   * Ensure that we only look at the LOCAL setting during boot, and do no actual drift correction at boot, as the kernel does that by itself.
   * grep the archive for software which might directly look at or even write that file (Ubuntu specific config tools and the like).

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