From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 20:51:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87FF106574F; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 20:51:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4543153E6B; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 20:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EDBDD50.4000303@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:51:28 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edwin Groothuis References: <4EDABADD.9000009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: edwin@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Christian Weisgerber , Max Khon Subject: Re: 7-STABLE: mergemaster tzsetup question X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:51:57 -0000 On 12/3/2011 6:00 PM, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On 04/12/2011, at 11:12 , Doug Barton wrote: >> On 12/3/2011 8:14 AM, Max Khon wrote: >>> Christian, >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Christian Weisgerber >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Every time I run mergemaster(8) on 7.4-STABLE, I'm now presented >>>> with >>>> >>>> *** There is no /var/db/zoneinfo file to update /etc/localtime. >>>> You should run tzsetup >>>> >>>> Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so >>>> mergemaster will prompt the next time, too. I guess I can just >>>> ignore it, but it seems weird that mergemaster would keep nagging >>>> about this. >>>> >>>> Where is /var/db/zoneinfo supposed to come from? >>>> >>>> I also notice that mergemaster can issue tzsetup arguments -C and >>>> -r, but tzsetup doesn't support those. >>> >>> tzsetup in FreeBSD 8 and later creates /var/db/zoneinfo. It seems that >>> mergemaster was merged to RELENG_7 but appropiate version of tzsetup >>> was not. >> >> Well that's embarrassing. :) >> >> Edwin, what are the chances that you could MFC your changes to tzsetup? > > If you still have a machine running 7.x (which I don't have anymore), then go for it and do your damage :-) Well I was kind of hoping you'd be responsible for doing your own work. :) (You see, I'm kind of tired of doing other people's MFCs.) You can use ref7.freebsd.org if you need a test platform. -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/