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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:12:04PM -0600, Casey Harkins wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

I like the last solution.  It means we can tell what the source is and
we don't need to duplicate 5m of data.

Seth

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