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Re: Bug#247484: thoughts on date setting



Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:

> On Saturday 21 July 2007 23:15, Joey Hess wrote:
>> * clock obviously not set correctly
>>
>> This can be identified in various ways, but if the clock is clearly not
>> set right (ie, 1970, or < d-i image build date) then it should be ok
>> for d-i to run rdate and hwclock to set it.
>
> If we can get a date/time using rdate, I guess you can add to this: 
> month/year unequal to NTP date, and even days >2 off.
> In these cases it is maybe not "obviously" wrong, but still "likely" and 
> we could ask.

And if clock is < archive keyring date

If it hits this case, debootstrap fails (I saw this happening a cuple
of times)

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