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

Debian, RedHat and LFS are all copying it now instead of symlinking:

http://bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=19140
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91228

Actually looking at the debian bug, I'm not sure if that is what they are
doing or not. I can only think of those two solutions, copying and
including /usr/share/zoneinfo on / partition (if /usr is separate).

Copying /usr/share/zoneinfo to rootfs idea came from this message:

http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2002-April/000407.html

casey@brak:~$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo/
5.0M    /usr/share/zoneinfo

The extra 5M shouldn't be a huge issue, but it is sort of a hack. I don't
really care which way we go, or if someone can think of a better way, but
I do think that we should make /etc/localtime available without requiring
/usr to be mounted.

I'm also seeing some messages where people have a
/usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime symlink pointing to the the actual zoneinfo
file, and have a copy of the file in /etc/localtime.

Thoughts?

-casey


On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Hamish Greig wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 14:56, Casey Harkins wrote:
> > Just checked, that will work perfectly. Anyone see any reason not to do
> > this? If not, I'll bug it with this fix.
> >
> > -casey
> there has to be a more elegant way of doing this, how do other distros get
> around the fact /usr may not be mounted in runlevel 1 ?
> I am a firm believer that things are installed into /usr/share if they are
> arch non-specific and can be shared over a network, creating local copies in
> the rootfs is not a solution IMO just a hack(I should know, I do enough of
> them), it might solve a few peoples short term problems but long term will
> cause more trouble than it's worth I think.
> Hamish
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