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commit 0a9eb3f3e2b7a08e6df4db44bc6fd56f2cd34173
Author: Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Nov 13 09:38:35 2025 +0900
tests: Add test to validate /etc/locatime is a symlink.
Match the modern desktop expectation set by systemd [0] and relied on by
some
software (GNOME/glib, icecat, ungoogle-chromium, etc.).
[0] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/localtime.5.html
* gnu/tests/base.scm
("/etc/localtime is a symlink to the timezone data file"): New test.
Change-Id: I8fb95abb6a3e455dd7019d5d798f7862d16b6263
Reviewed-by: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
---
gnu/tests/base.scm | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/tests/base.scm b/gnu/tests/base.scm
index 659b754802..dc51880d8e 100644
--- a/gnu/tests/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/tests/base.scm
@@ -232,6 +232,18 @@ info --version")
`(tm:gmtoff (localtime ,sept-2021))
marionette)))
+ (test-equal "/etc/localtime is a symlink to the timezone data file"
+ ;; This is a systemd-ism that most distributions follow; we do to,
+ ;; for compatibility with software that assumes this is convention
+ ;; is followed (see:
+ ;;
<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/localtime.html#>)
+ #$(operating-system-timezone os)
+ (marionette-eval
+ `(string-join
+ (take-right (string-split (readlink "/etc/localtime") #\/) 2)
+ "/")
+ marionette))
+
(test-equal "/var/log/messages is not world-readable"
#o640 ;<https://bugs.gnu.org/40405>
(begin
