[systemd-devel] Using timedatectl on a readonly rootfile system using mender

[Dave Howorth]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 21:32:19 +0200
Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Fr, 04.09.20 14:10, Shravan Singh (shravan at bluesparq.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hello Lennart,
> >
> > Can you help me in understanding why this push was rejected?
> > *Make timedatectl nicely work with read-only filesystems #8277 *  
> 
> The explanation is in the PR comments.

Would either of you care to provide a link to the actual text you're
referring to, for people reading who are not intimately associated with
the code?

I can see why read-only rootfs might be desirable, and in an age of
mobile computing I can see why mutable timezones might also be
desirable.

> Lennart