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Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC



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.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.

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