Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-20 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 10:27 PM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Alec Warner wrote: > > >> Which doesn't imply that we deliberately break things. > > > Not sure I follow.. how is updating the handbook breaking anything? > > Both configurations (regular file and symlink) work

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Alec Warner wrote: >> Which doesn't imply that we deliberately break things. > Not sure I follow.. how is updating the handbook breaking anything? Both configurations (regular file and symlink) work just fine, and sys-libs/timezone-data supports them. I don't see a

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-20 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 9:19 PM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, William Hubbs wrote: > > > /etc/localtime should definitely be a symlink to the proper file in > > /usr/share/zoneinfo. > > > This works fine if /usr is on a separate partition *and* you are using > > an

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, William Hubbs wrote: > /etc/localtime should definitely be a symlink to the proper file in > /usr/share/zoneinfo. > This works fine if /usr is on a separate partition *and* you are using > an initramfs. The only time it doesn't work is if /usr is separate > without

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-20 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 05:04:06PM +0100, Nils Freydank wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Am Samstag, den 20.03.2021 um 16:37:23 Uhr +0100 schrieb "Andreas K. Huettel" > : > > [...] > > Does anyone remember the reason for 1) ? Or is that lost in history? > > I just quote comment 3 from the linked bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-20 Thread Nils Freydank
Hi Andreas, Am Samstag, den 20.03.2021 um 16:37:23 Uhr +0100 schrieb "Andreas K. Huettel" : > [...] > Does anyone remember the reason for 1) ? Or is that lost in history? I just quote comment 3 from the linked bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/737914#c3: "copying the zonefile to /etc/localtime is a

[gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?

2021-03-20 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi all, why do we *copy* the timezone file to /etc/localtime, instead of symlinking it like everyone else? 1) Our handbook recommends: echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data which is effectively doing echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone cp -f

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: x11-misc/menumaker

2021-03-20 Thread Joonas Niilola
Hey, the following package is up for grabs:   x11-misc/menumaker 1 bug open, and in addition:   PythonCompatUpdate: version 0.99.12: PYTHON_COMPAT update available: python3_9 -- juippis OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature