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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Mads Laursen wrote:
> > NEEDS="+local_fs" will work as long as /usr can be mounted. Another option
> > suggested on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list, was to copy -R
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo onto / without /usr mounted. This way the symlink will
> > work with or without /usr mounted. I don't see how this could be done
> > automatically from within the glibc spell safely though.
>
> How about something like:
>
>   mkdir -p SOME_DIR/root
>   mount --bind / SOME_DIR/root
>   if ! [ -d SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo ]; then
>     mkdir -p SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo
>     cp -rv /usr/share/zoneinfo/* SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo/
>   fi
>   umount SOME_DIR/root
>
> AFAIK mount --bind binds the actual directory tree pointed to, without
> regard for anything mounted ontop of it.

Just checked, that will work perfectly. Anyone see any reason not to do
this? If not, I'll bug it with this fix.

-casey