Saturday, October 21, 2023

[fedora-arm] Re: Fedora Linux 39 Final blocker status summary #3

On Sat, 2023-10-21 at 11:34 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <adamwill@fedoraproject.org> said:
> > > 6. distribution - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2242759 - NEW
> > > dnf system-upgrade fails on some RPi4 due to system boot date that pre-
> > > dates gpg key
> > >
> > > We're still kinda kicking around ideas for "fixing" this, but I think
> > > if push comes to shove, we'll wind up revoting or waiving it as not
> > > practically fixable.
> >
> > Not adding to the ticket (because "me too" is not useful there), but...
> > I think Fedora should include SOME type of "fake hwclock"-type thing for
> > systems with no RTC (make a systemd service depend on /dev/rtc not
> > existing?), as other RPi-targeted distros do. This isn't RPi-specific,
> > a number of the small boards have no RTC. I do typically add an RTC to
> > my Pis, but not always (for various reasons).
>
> We already have systemd-timesyncd. On startup, it syncs the time to
> the mtime of:
> - /var/lib/systemd/timesync/clock file; or
> - /usr/lib/clock-epoch file; or
> - a time derived from the source tree at build time
>
> timesyncd is mentioned in the bug, but I didn't read everything.

There are several ways we could certainly address the bug going
forward. Say, starting with a Fedora 40 Change. But it seems less clear
how we could safely fix it for upgrades from F37 or F38 to F39, without
pushing a level of change that is inappropriate for a stable release.
--
Adam Williamson (he/him/his)
Fedora QA
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