starting with tzdata version 2024b-5 [0] the package does not create /etc/timezone anymore (background is quite well explained in /usr/share/doc/tzdata/NEWS.Debian.gz: ``` Previously, the tzdata package in Debian used the /etc/timezone file to configure the system's timezone. This method is not supported by systemd and certain desktop environments, which instead only change the /etc/localtime symlink to point to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo. .... In a future release, the /etc/timezone file will be automatically removed ... The debian-installer from Trixie also no longer creates this file. ``` align our installer with debian's installer.
[0] https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2025b-4_changelog Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.iva...@proxmox.com> --- I would NOT recommend adding this patch now - we'd need to check where our code relies on /etc/timezone being present (PVE/INotify.pm creates it IIRC, proxmox-time create and proxmox-backup have a fallback to /etc/localtime) - but that was just a very cursory glance at a grep '/etc/timezone' in my source-dir). Proxmox/Install.pm | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Proxmox/Install.pm b/Proxmox/Install.pm index 9cb88bc..fb23f7f 100644 --- a/Proxmox/Install.pm +++ b/Proxmox/Install.pm @@ -1299,7 +1299,6 @@ _EOD my $timezone = Proxmox::Install::Config::get_timezone(); unlink("$targetdir/etc/localtime"); symlink("/usr/share/zoneinfo/$timezone", "$targetdir/etc/localtime"); - file_write_all("$targetdir/etc/timezone", "$timezone\n"); unlink "$targetdir/etc/mailname"; $postfix_main_cf =~ s/__FQDN__/${hostname}.${domain}/; -- 2.39.5 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
