From: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
To: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:48:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJTo0La61B9iceYx-xktn9DQ-wOGsM5Odu22GN_NpnX1294DBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FF931F2C-6ABE-4F72-8FEE-90CFCE69121C@dominion.thruhere.net>
On 29 August 2012 17:50, Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> Ehm, I *really* want it to be a symlink, that way you easily check what the timezone is without needing to boot the device or compare md5sums. The last thing the TSC said on the split /usr was something along the lines of "would be nice, but only if it doesn't make things worse". A cp instead of ln would make things worse IMO.
Branch updated with a symlink, and the following commit message:
tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone
Lots of code (such a GLib) expects this to exist and link to the current
timezone definition.
/etc/localtime is a symlink instead of a copy of hard link to make
it obvious
what timezone data it's pointing at. For systems with /etc on a separate
filesystem to /usr this will result in a dangling symlink until
/usr is mounted,
but as this is early boot the assumption is that anything checking it will
handle that case and fallback to UTC.
Ross
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-30 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-29 14:24 [PATCH 0/2] tzdata fixes Ross Burton
2012-08-29 14:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] tzdata: this package isn't architecture specific Ross Burton
2012-08-29 14:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone Ross Burton
2012-08-29 14:47 ` Koen Kooi
2012-08-29 14:49 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-08-29 15:23 ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 16:50 ` Koen Kooi
2012-08-29 16:57 ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 17:01 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-08-29 17:31 ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 19:12 ` Phil Blundell
2012-08-29 19:20 ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 21:38 ` Khem Raj
2012-08-29 21:50 ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-29 22:22 ` Phil Blundell
2012-08-29 22:45 ` Khem Raj
2012-08-30 10:00 ` Burton, Ross
2012-08-30 10:21 ` Phil Blundell
2012-08-31 14:29 ` Phil Blundell
2012-08-31 14:34 ` Khem Raj
2012-08-31 16:01 ` Richard Purdie
2012-08-31 16:45 ` Khem Raj
2012-08-31 21:31 ` Khem Raj
2012-09-01 17:30 ` Andrea Adami
2012-09-04 16:28 ` Mark Hatle
2012-09-04 19:26 ` Burton, Ross
2012-09-04 19:44 ` Mark Hatle
2012-09-04 20:06 ` Burton, Ross
2012-09-04 20:40 ` Mark Hatle
2012-09-04 21:29 ` Khem Raj
2012-09-06 9:32 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-09-07 16:30 ` Khem Raj
2012-09-04 16:16 ` Mark Hatle
2012-08-30 9:48 ` Burton, Ross [this message]
2012-08-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] tzdata fixes Koen Kooi
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