Bug#895686: installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my system

2018-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday, April 14, 2018 10:53:58 PM CDT Chris Lamb wrote: > Can you > hunt around for any file you think matches? ctime of /etc/inittab or /root/.profile might work. ctime candidates attached. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net (

Bug#895686: installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my system

2018-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday, April 14, 2018 10:53:58 PM CDT Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi! > > > > Getcha. Can you provide the output of: > > > $ ls -l --sort=time /var/log /etc > > Hm, none of these seem like good candidates to add. :( Can you > hunt around for any file you think matches? Perhaps an "ls -l -- > sort

Bug#895686: installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my system

2018-04-14 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi! > > Getcha. Can you provide the output of: > > > > $ ls -l --sort=time /var/log /etc Hm, none of these seem like good candidates to add. :( Can you hunt around for any file you think matches? Perhaps an "ls -l -- sort=time" for "/" and "/root" and "/boot" might help here? Regards, --

Bug#895686: installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my system

2018-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday, April 14, 2018 7:28:14 PM CDT Chris Lamb wrote: > > The system is *definitely* older that that. My oldest files in /var/log > > are from 2007-12-17 ('news/', 'uucp.log', and 'boot.2.gz'). That seems > > like the right timeframe for when I may have done the install. > > Getcha. Can y

Bug#895686: installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my system

2018-04-14 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Stephen. Thanks for the report. Please keep <895...@bugs.debian.org> in any followups and replies :) > D: Checking mtime of /root > D: Using mtime from /root > D: Today's date: 2018-04-14 > I: Installation date: 2017-08-27 > D: Dates do not match > > The system is *definitely* older that that

Bug#895686: installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my system

2018-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Package: installation-birthday Version: 8 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Maintainer, I have a system that was originally installed as Etch/amd64 via debootstrap from a running Gentoo system. Since then, I've used LVM to migrate the filesystems to new drives,