I'm part way thru a fresh gentoo install and ran up on something in the handbook guide to installing that is puzzling.
This URL: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Distribution_files >From the section of install during the chroot and start of putting together the OS. Under heading Timezone I find these sub headings showing examples of what to do: root #ls /usr/share/zoneinfo root #echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone And there is a little part following that says: Next, reconfigure the sys-libs/timezone-data package, which will update the /etc/localtime file for us, based on the /etc/timezone entry. The /etc/localtime file is used by the system C library to know the timezone the system is in. And sys-libs/timezone-data package is a hyperlink to a page about that package. What is really puzzling is the the words `reconfigure' that package. But then there is nothing said about what this `reconfiguring' consists of. It used to be we just either copied the appropriate zimezone section to /etc/localtime... or symlinked it there. Can anyone explain what is meant by `reconfiguring' in this context or how it is done? The hyperlink leads to some info about the package but there is no mention there of reconfiguring either.
