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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c
To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:40:56 -0800 (PST)
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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...


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