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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:22:18 +0200."
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:33:20 -0800
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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.