Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:33:20 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=), 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: <199603311733.JAA13028@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:22:18 %2B0200." <199603311622.SAA11793@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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.
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