Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:56:47 -0700 From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions -" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11 Message-ID: <3CA73050-6661-47A5-976F-07DEB390E133@dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <200703091640.18154.v.cristescu@lamit.ro> References: <010801c7624c$709ecb80$6501a8c0@GRANT> <200703091640.18154.v.cristescu@lamit.ro>
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On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote:
> On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo,
>> all but
>> one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4.
>>
>> When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this:
>>
>> voyager ROOT /usr/gpeel/zoneinfo > make
>> zoneinfo-: You need to define PORTNAME and PORTVERSION instead of
>> PKGNAME.
>> (This port is too old for your bsd.port.mk, please update it to match
>> your bsd.port.mk.)
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop.
>>
>> I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file
>> itself, but
>> have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could
>> simplify, I
>> would appreciate it.
>>
Grant,
Search for an email I sent to the list on 2/22 with Subject
Determining daylight savings changes on BSD
It has the steps needed to update manually from source.
Here's the steps
If you can't use the ports to update your time zone files here is the
manual procedure.
1. create a new directory and cd into it
e.g. # mkdir myzoneinfo; cd myzoneinfo
2. # fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007b.tar.gz
3. # tar -zxvf tzdata2007b.tar.gz
4. you will now have a bunch of files in the directory extracted from
tzdata2007b.
you need to edit zone.tab and comment out these lines
#AX +6006+01957 Europe/Mariehamn
#GG +4927-00232 Europe/Guernsey
#IM +5409-00428 Europe/Isle_of_Man
#JE +4912-00207 Europe/Jersey
#ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica
#RS +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade
#TL -0833+12535 Asia/Dili
5. run this command
# zic -d ./zoneinfo -p America/Los_Angeles -m 0644 -y ./yearistype \
africa antarctica asia australasia etcetera europe \
factory northamerica southamerica systemv
that's all one long line
the zic command will create a new directory named zoneinfo and
fill it with the new zoneinfo files. You can compare it to
/usr/share/zoneinfo
6. install the new files by running
# cp -R -p ./zoneinfo/ /usr/share/zoneinfo
# cp ./zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo
# tzsetup
7. to verify that all went well run
# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
your should get
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59
2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00
2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59
2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00
2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
I've done this on 1/2 dozen older 4.x and 5.x servers and it works fine.
Dan
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