From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 04:00:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A6F16A420 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:00:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CADCF43D46 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:00:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2S40gGQ043343 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:00:42 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k2S40gSH043337; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:00:42 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:00:42 GMT Message-Id: <200603280400.k2S40gSH043337@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Mark Andrews Cc: Subject: Re: conf/95017: Timezone rules are out of date. X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mark Andrews List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:00:43 -0000 The following reply was made to PR conf/95017; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mark Andrews To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/95017: Timezone rules are out of date. Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:50:39 +1100 > That's why I made misc/zoneinfo. > > Well, after the problem occured of course :-( > > Edwin I can understand for misc/zoneinfo for branches that are not offically supported anymore. However RELENG_4 is still offically supported. Also for misc/zoneinfo to be useful you need hooks in base to prevent the port being overwritten whenever you do a post security installworld. Additionally updates to zoneinfo are not reflected in /etc/localtime. mergemaster needs to be tought to handle this. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org