Re: Fedora Linux 39 Final blocker status summary #3

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 22:02 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>  On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 04:55:57PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  > 6. distribution - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2242759 - NEW: anyone at
>  > all to come up with a genius fix, otherwise we'll likely have to
>  > document this
>  
>  Happy to oblige ;--] 
Genius located! Thanks, Zbigniew :)
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Fedora Linux 39 Final blocker status summary #3

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 7:33 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 22:02 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>  > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 04:55:57PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  > > 6. distribution - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2242759 - NEW: anyone at
>  > > all to come up with a genius fix, otherwise we'll likely have to
>  > > document this
>  >
>  > Happy to oblige ;--]
>
>  Genius located! Thanks, Zbigniew :) 
Be careful of this solution. Time functions were formerly returning an
error until the RTC was set to an accurate time. The new behavior is
to return a fake/incorrect time without an error. I don't think it's a
good idea to misreport something time system wide without error.

You might want to consider other ways to get beyond signature checks
that are less intrusive, and not system wide.

Jeff

Fedora Linux 39 Final blocker status summary #3

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 20:51 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>  On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 7:33 PM Adam Williamson
>  <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  > 
>  > On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 22:02 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>  > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 04:55:57PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  > > > 6. distribution - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2242759 - NEW: anyone at
>  > > > all to come up with a genius fix, otherwise we'll likely have to
>  > > > document this
>  > > 
>  > > Happy to oblige ;--]
>  > 
>  > Genius located! Thanks, Zbigniew :)
>  
>  Be careful of this solution. Time functions were formerly returning an
>  error until the RTC was set to an accurate time. The new behavior is
>  to return a fake/incorrect time without an error. I don't think it's a
>  good idea to misreport something time system wide without error.
>  
>  You might want to consider other ways to get beyond signature checks
>  that are less intrusive, and not system wide. 
There isn't any new behaviour. We're just doing a new systemd build for
F38 so the already-existing behaviour (set the clock to the time the
package was built) will give a later time than previously.
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