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Date:      Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:12:13 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, edwin@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 7-STABLE: mergemaster tzsetup question
Message-ID:  <4EDABADD.9000009@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CADe0-4kwFWkNCkYLac8ZayzxNi09XCK1mF6dxGgT0DH0vCav%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <jbdf06$294$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <CADe0-4kwFWkNCkYLac8ZayzxNi09XCK1mF6dxGgT0DH0vCav%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>

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On 12/3/2011 8:14 AM, Max Khon wrote:
> Christian,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Christian Weisgerber
> <naddy@mips.inka.de> 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?


Doug

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