Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 08:16:17 -0800 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7-STABLE: mergemaster tzsetup question Message-ID: <20111203161617.GG41130@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <jbdf06$294$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <jbdf06$294$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--ayeiFF771fbkZqVc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:24:54PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Every time I run mergemaster(8) on 7.4-STABLE, I'm now presented > with >=20 > *** There is no /var/db/zoneinfo file to update /etc/localtime. > You should run tzsetup >=20 > Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so > mergemaster will prompt the next time, too. I guess I can just > ignore it, but it seems weird that mergemaster would keep nagging > about this. >=20 > Where is /var/db/zoneinfo supposed to come from? It's a path, relative to /usr/share/zoneinfo, for the source of the file that was copied to /etc/localtime. Thus, in my case, it reads: America/Los_Angeles on my laptop. For machines that run UTC, it's not needed. > ... Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --ayeiFF771fbkZqVc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk7aS1EACgkQmprOCmdXAD1AFACeM76MafBmSU2aohiChbBs9mYY e4kAn2AyXEWpMS7Ns9Px7PmPwH9QKhRf =QuNZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ayeiFF771fbkZqVc--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20111203161617.GG41130>