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Date:      Sat, 3 Dec 2011 22:14:54 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7-STABLE: mergemaster tzsetup question
Message-ID:  <CADe0-4kwFWkNCkYLac8ZayzxNi09XCK1mF6dxGgT0DH0vCav%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <jbdf06$294$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <jbdf06$294$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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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.
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0You should run tzsetup
>
> Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so
> mergemaster will prompt the next time, too. =C2=A0I 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.

Max



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