Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:51:28 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: edwin@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: 7-STABLE: mergemaster tzsetup question Message-ID: <4EDBDD50.4000303@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <F341DFBF-7377-4F86-979A-BE2AEEF3D4DA@mavetju.org> References: <jbdf06$294$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <CADe0-4kwFWkNCkYLac8ZayzxNi09XCK1mF6dxGgT0DH0vCav%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <4EDABADD.9000009@FreeBSD.org> <F341DFBF-7377-4F86-979A-BE2AEEF3D4DA@mavetju.org>
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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 >>> <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? > > 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/
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