Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:22:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Cc: 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: <199603311622.SAA11793@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603311427.SAA00769@astral.msk.su> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Mar 31, 96 06:27:44 pm
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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. 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. 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. -- 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. ;-)
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