Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with latest timezone update?

["Drake Donahue" <donahue95@comcast.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steev Klimaszewski" <steev@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with latest timezone update?


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> Except that neither etc-update nor dispatch-conf touch
> the /etc/localtime file...
>

True, but...
The files that are (maybe) affected directly by etc-update and/or 
dispatch-conf  are /etc/conf.d/clock and /etc/init.d/clock. ('maybe' is used 
because: an emerge update must have affected one or both files; etc-update 
and/or dispatch-conf  must have been invoked by the user; the user must have 
chosen action that resulted in a change to one or both files.
 /etc/conf.d/clock is the configuration file for /etc/init.d/clock.
When /etc/init.d/clock runs (normally at boot), /etc/conf.d/clock is read.
If CLOCK="UTC" is not set in /etc/conf.d/clock, the option --localtime is 
used and TBLURB="Local Time" is set.
The /etc/localtime file is a copy of one of the binary files in 
/usr/share/zoneinfo made by the system installer initially; it is subject to 
update by repeating the manual copy process anytime after system install.
Thus etc-update and/or dispatch-conf can't change localtime; but can change 
whether localtime runs or not.

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