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Subject: RE: Re: Current setup timestamp 1590343308
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Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 20:14:20 +0000
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Fergus Daly said:
>> What I have observed, twice now (earlier today using setup.ini incorporating timestamp 1590343308 and now using the latest setup.ini incorporating timestamp 1590407755) is that event (ii) is failing: the file /etc/setup/timestamp is not updated - and if it isn't there at all, it is not created.

Ken Brown said:
>> I'm not seeing any change in behavior on my system.  I just deleted 
/etc/setup/timestamp and ran setup.  A new /etc/setup/timestamp was created, 
with contents 1590430423.  This matches the value in the downloaded setup.ini file:
    setup-timestamp: 1590430423
Do you see any error messages involving /etc/setup/timestamp in the setup log 
files in /var/log?

And thank you for this. In a way I am encouraged that things remain as they should be for you and presumably for others, and that there's some kind of local glitch on my machine.
It is trivially annoying, perplexing - and persistent! (I've just updated to 1590430423) with these consequences:
Nothing at all relevant in /var/log/setup.log*:
~> grep timestamp /var/log/setup.log*
~>
yields nothing. And
~> ls -altr /etc/setup/
ends with
..
..
-rw-r--r-- 1   404 May 22 09:39 perl-TimeDate.lst.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1   629 May 22 09:39 mintty.lst.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1    11 May 25 17:10 timestamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 16283 May 25 20:45 installed.db
-rw-r--r-- 1    64 May 25 20:45 setup.rc
showing that the last update that actually altered my provision - not the full offering by any means - took place on May 22. The timestamp file at time 17:10 today is an artificial creation with the contents 1580000000 so that tracking is easy. The update to 1590430423 occurred at 20:45 today and revised only two of the three files that would normally be updated - /etc/setup/timestamp has not changed.
.. .. ??!!
As I say - perplexing.
Fergus 
(And /etc/setup/timestamp should update, even when there's no change to a user's provision. It always has, until today.)
Thanks anyway.
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