Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:40:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ache@astral.msk.su, joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c Message-ID: <199603311940.LAA01591@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199603311733.JAA13028@precipice.shockwave.com> from Paul Traina at "Mar 31, 96 09:33:20 am"
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> > From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c > As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote: > > > > . Removed the gross code that copied over the timezone file to > > > /etc/localtime, and create a symlink now instead. > > > > Please, back it out. /etc/localtime supposed to work even in single-user > > mode, when /usr/share not mounted! > > We have been shipping the system with the symlink for a long time, and > nobody was complaining. > > Yes, they DID complain. That's why we changed it to a copy. Please don't > take us through backwards steps. > > I don't back this out, the previous version was totally buggy and > happily clobbered files under /usr/share/zoneinfo/ in case the > existing /etc/localtime has already been a symlink. > > If the previous code was buggy, fix the previous code. > > Symlinking is much more obvious than copying the file (since you can > examine the installed timezone setting with ``ls -l''), so unless > there's a strong objection from much more than one person, i wouldn't > change it again. Normally, i would it leave up to the local admin to > decide whether to copy the file in preferance of the symlink. > > There's a strong objection from more than one person. And you can add a third... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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