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From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
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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
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