From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 12:52:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA27119 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27078 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA17374 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:52:15 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA27339 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:52:14 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA00808 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:31:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603312031.WAA00808@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:31:00 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <20041.828299250@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 31, 96 11:07:30 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Moved to -current, where this better fits.) As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I think this is reasonable. If I'm running single-user with nothing > but root mounted, I *expect* some things not to work quite right. I > can't run vi very nicely without my /var mounted either, for that > matter, and I usually find this far more objectionable than the > timezone being set wrong. Funny you should mention this -- vi needs /usr/share/misc/termcap as well. :-)) I hope we won't install termcap directly into /etc now... IMHO, dumping over the entire zoneinfo file into /etc defeats the idea of keeping the zoneinfo files in a separate directory, and it adds yet another file of binary junk to /etc. Anyway, this file is rather small, and i'm not willing to fight yet another absolutely sensefree argumentation war about it. So tell me folks whether my compromise proposal (re-establish the symlink if it's already been one, copy the file if it's been a regular file) would find a majority. This still leaves the question of which kind of /etc/localtime to install in the first place, but i'm sick of arguing here and simply copy over the file in this case. As long as i could have a symlink for myself, and one that won't be clobbered, it'll be ok for me. Funny btw., tzsetup was almost absolutely useless before. Now that it's at least working, people complain about how it works. :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)