All that matters is the system thought there was a change

What I should have included is where do you look to see the change in 'Label' value from 'Devuan Security' to 'Devuan-Security' for example?

Thanks!!

So, in which of the Base Files should I be looking to see the difference? There was no difference in os-release.

You would download the both and compare the files. All that matters is the system thought there was a change and displayed  the normal message for that change. You see it every time the . release updates go from the 12.7 to 12.8 for instance you get to see it. Now I scroll back the old version last update was in July of 2023 definitely a few version . changes in that period of time thus the reason for the message being displayed.

You have solved the mystery

So, in which of the Base Files should I be looking to see the difference? There was no difference in os-release.

It is only or should only be displayed

So far, I have uncovered the following:

Toshiba Tecra A7 after Install and APT updating

~$ cat /etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)"
NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="5"
VERSION="5 (daedalus)"
VERSION_CODENAME="daedalus"
ID=devuan
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"

Created:  2024-12-27 15:06:20
Modified: 2024-09-12 16:16:07
Accessed: 2024-12-27 15:06:19

/var/log/apt/history.log

Last Update occurred starting with the following 2 lines:

Start-Date: 2024-12-27  15:06:19
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic

It contained an entry for:
base-files:i386 (12.4devuan3, 12.4+deb12u7devuan1)

Previous Update occurred as follows:

Start-Date: 2023-07-20  02:57:27
Commandline: apt-get --yes --force-yes install dialog live-boot live-boot-initramfs-tools
Install: dialog:i386 (1.3-20230209-1)
End-Date: 2023-07-20  02:57:30
 

Live ISO filesystem.squashfs

/etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)"
NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="5"
VERSION="5 (daedalus)"
VERSION_CODENAME="daedalus"
ID=devuan
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"

Modified: 2023-05-11 03:09
Accessed: 2023-05-11 03:09
Link Target: ../usr/lib/os-release

It did not have a Created DateTimeStamp.

/var/log/apt/history.log

Last Update occurred as follows:

Start-Date: 2023-07-20  02:57:27
Commandline: apt-get --yes --force-yes install dialog live-boot live-boot-initramfs-tools
Install: dialog:i386 (1.3-20230209-1)
End-Date: 2023-07-20  02:57:30

What would have caused the other 2 Notes to no longer be displayed?

It is only or should only be displayed when the base-files package is updated and the information in the os-release file changes.

root@9600k:~# cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur/ceres)"
NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="6"
VERSION="6 (excalibur/ceres)"
VERSION_CODENAME="excalibur ceres"
ID=devuan
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"
root@9600k:~# apt-file search /etc/os-release
base-files: /etc/os-release  
snip....

Check in your /var/log/apt/history.log to see if it (base-files) has been updated recently to tell if it should have displayed.

searched the forum for "changed its 'Suite' value …

So, I used the command

sudo apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change

and the Warning Message, regarding the Repository Indexes, is no longer displayed.

However, before I did that, I reloaded the Package Information and this time only the Note about daedalus-security appeared as above in Post  #62.

What would have caused the other 2 Notes to no longer be displayed?

How is it that the Suite and Label values were changed and how can you confirm that the changes are legitimate?

I tried searching man pages but couldn't find what effects are established with the use of the "--allow-releaseinfo-change" option. Is this information recorded in a file of the OS too?

change the /etc/adjtime to say LOCAL

This is the option I used and System Date and Time is correctly displayed now.

Previously, I had tried the

hwclock -s

command but it didn't appear to immediately do anything. After what must have been at least 30 mins or so (and maybe a reboot in between) the system date and time was displaying correctly but then I saw the BIOS was different. I prefer the BIOS to match the Operating System whether there is Dual-Booting or not.

BIOS to specify what type of time was being set in the BIOS when what he was saying was to use the UTC time for my Region and Location to set the time in the BIOS. big_smile

Yes as has been pointed out you set the time in the BIOS/UEFI to the offset from UTC for your time zone. For instance in mine it is set to 4 hours less than UTC as my offset is -4 this makes everything work properly when the systems use UTC as most all *nix systems use it, like Linux, the BSDs & MacOS. Only Windows usually defaults to using local time as the multitude of postings of "why does my clock change when dual booting" can attest to.

Boots Fast I guess; gets to the User Name screen in about 1 minute and after the password is entered about another 20 seconds for the Desktop to finish loading. Is that good?

The screen seems to be better quality than the one in the Lenovo L540 and its 16:10 which is much more useful for consuming vertical content.

your reply was confusing

Ah, now I get it. For some reason, I was thinking there was a setting in the BIOS to specify what type of time was being set in the BIOS when what he was saying was to use the UTC time for my Region and Location to set the time in the BIOS.

your reply was confusing

you will need to set your bios time to UTC for the operating system to display the correct time without additional fiddling.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc

Set the BIOS time to UTC

That must be a feature of newer BIOS/UEFI systems. This Laptop has a BIOS from 2006.

I will try editing the adjtime file.

That is not what is needed

My sources.list file has the following uncommented lines:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main non-free-firmware