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Ubuntu better.
/etc/localtime is a symlink and therefore setting the immutable flag is
not possible:
```
$ lsattr /etc/localtime
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /etc/localtime
```
If you make files in /usr/share/zoneinfo immutable, it will be no
surprise that apt will fail to replace them on a tzdata update.
Can you describe how to replicate your setup step by step?
** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1258646
Title:
tzdata upgrade dies, killing apt w/o fixing the tty, when
/etc/localtime is protected
Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
When /etc/localtime is protected from manipulation, such as with the
immutable flag — something which is often required when leasing
virtuals, to keep the vendors’ frameworks from screwing with the
filesystem — an update to tzdata will crap out, killing dpkg and apt,
which leaves the tty a mess.
Instead, should it be impossible to overwrite the existing
/etc/localtime, the script should continue without error.
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