Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 231
the Good Old ARC/2018 problem
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:48 EDT
RH/Alpha installation will timestamp all directories and rpm install dates as year 2018 since the operator is asked about the clock format (ARC/SRM) at the *end* of the installation process, when it's a bit too late. The installer should ask if you're using ARC *before* installing the packages, and in case of Upgrade process, why not peek into /etc/sysconfig/clock? This problem has been one of the most popular topics in axp-list at least since the 4.0 days. I hope that things will change now that it's also reported here :-) It's of course easy to fix wrong dates of directories afterwards with a simple script using find, but that doesn't fix dates in the rpm database, thus breaking rpm --verify etc.
I'm not sure we can easily correct this as it would require a radical change in the install code for Alpha. ------- Additional Comments From 10/08/99 13:13 ------- Why not ask about the date format before package install on *all* platforms...that way it would work on Alpha too. I don't see the point in making special case code or workarounds just for Alpha. It's just a matter of ordering the menus differently.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5883 ***