On Mar 28 02:25, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: > I have released and announced a test package of tzdata 2024a-2 split into > three install packages: base tzdata, optional tzdata-right, and redundant > tzdata-posix, each containing all the legacy zones so that tzset continues > to work as before. > > I could not reduce the base installed zones by many, because most were used > by tzset, but I did drop a couple of large zone source files, produced by > the build, that were previously included to allow users to see the source > zones, rules, and links in effect, saving ~1MB, and dropping the overall > default base installed file sizes by ~80% to ~20% of current, and download > tar size by ~60% to ~40%; for all zones aggregate total installed file sizes > are dropped by ~35% to ~65%, and download tar sizes by ~30% to ~70% of > current: > > install tar tzdata > 721KB 172KB base > 984KB 78KB right > 669KB 74KB posix > 1367KB 444KB source > 3667KB 452KB current > > Please check out the announcement, cygwin list echo, source and install > package summary web pages, cygport changes, setup entries, scallywag builds, > and let me know if there is anything you see that could benefit from > improvement.
Fedora Rawhide is not following this scheme. For F40 and F41 it still prepares single tzdata packages. FWIW, OpenSuSE also only comes with a single timezone package in Tumbleweed. Comparing the Cygwin and the Fedora package, the only differences are: Cygwin comes with two files not in the Fedora package: /usr/share/zoneinfo/rearguard.zi /usr/share/zoneinfo/zonenow.tab Fedora comes with two files not in the Cygwin package: /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules That's all. And given that space is not one of the major limiting factors anymore... cyg$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo 6.6M /usr/share/zoneinfo fed$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo 4.6M /usr/share/zoneinfo ...I do wonder a bit if this split is really necessary after all. Corinna
