On Monday, 9 בOctober 2006 13:49, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 09/10/06, Ehud Karni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a very minor correction, the zoneinfo file is not copied, > > it is symlinked, to /etc/localtime. > It probably depends on the distro, on Debian Etch it's a regular file, not a > symlink.
Also on my Fedora (Core-5). > I guess that the logic is that /usr might not be still available when the > zoneinfo is already required (e.g. when /usr is NFS-mounted). And single user of course... It used to be the common practice to symlink /etc/localtime, but due to these problems some distros started to make a copy. If tzdata is packaged separately from glibc, than upgrades does not pose any problem at all (nothing should be updated unless you change your timezoen). These distros provide of course a high level scripts/tools to handle this for their users: * In RedHat/Fedora: the old timeconfig or the newer system-config-date * In Slackware it's still timeconfig. I stumbled upon an interesting script: http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware_source/l/glibc/doinst.sh-glibc-zoneinfo -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 "write your own operating system. It has worked every time for me" -- Linus Thorvalds ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
