[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-12, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On most of my Gentoo systems, the DST change didn't happen. Apparently I screwed up by following the instructions in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml where it says: Set your timezone Set your time zone

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +, Grant Edwards wrote Shouldn't you symlink /etc/localtime to the the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo? That way when the zoneinfo files get udpated (as they all did), you'll use the new file?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:53 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Yup, that was evidently the problem. Perhaps step #2 should be documented in the Handbook and/or the Quickinstall Perhaps the constant nagging from the timezone-data package when it's emerged as well as the system when it's booted isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:53:40 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +, Grant Edwards wrote That was the old way of doing it. For a number of reasons a new method is devised. The new method

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:53 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Yup, that was evidently the problem. Perhaps step #2 should be documented in the Handbook and/or the Quickinstall Perhaps the constant nagging from the timezone-data package when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 16:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Perhaps the constant nagging from the timezone-data package when it's emerged When it's emerged as part of an update with 30 or 40 other packages, it's pretty easy to miss things like that. This has long been a complaint among users

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 16:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Perhaps the constant nagging from the timezone-data package when it's emerged When it's emerged as part of an update with 30 or 40 other packages, it's pretty easy to miss things like that.

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 16:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Perhaps the constant nagging from the timezone-data package when it's emerged When it's emerged as part of an update with 30 or 40 other packages, it's pretty easy to miss things

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread John covici
on Monday 03/12/2007 Grant Edwards([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 16:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Perhaps the constant nagging from the timezone-data package when it's emerged When it's emerged as part of an update with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:33 -0400, John covici wrote: I wish you could have an option for portage to stop until these things are acknowledged -- I had a 106 package update of which the timezone data were a part and I use script and check these little notices, however its easy to miss such

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/12/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:33 -0400, John covici wrote: I wish you could have an option for portage to stop until these things are acknowledged -- I had a 106 package update of which the timezone data were a part and I use script and check

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:33:54 -0400, John covici wrote: I wish you could have an option for portage to stop until these things are acknowledged -- I had a 106 package update of which the timezone data were a part and I use script and check these little notices, however its easy to miss such

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:19:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I am interested however in learning about how to get these messages logged and sent by email or at least into some file that easy to look at. I think they already go into the portage /var log file but I find that pretty tedious and easy