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From: Henry Gebhardt <hsggebhardt@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] time issue
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 11:28:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530092854.GA1864@bimsstein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE35C0F.4050700@binarywings.net>

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:57:51AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 30.05.2011 10:15, schrieb András Csányi:
> 
> The localization guide seems to be in a poor state. Copying the zoneinfo
> file from /usr/share... to /etc/localtime is not the best way to do it
> because then you miss updates. It is better to create a symlink between
> the two.

Copying is just fine. The timezone-data ebuild will update
/etc/localtime for you on the next update, and replace the symlink if
you have one there. The reason, IIRC, being that /usr might not yet be
mounted during early boot.


H



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-30  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30  8:15 [gentoo-user] time issue András Csányi
2011-05-30  8:49 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-30  8:57 ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-30  9:28   ` Henry Gebhardt [this message]
2011-05-30 11:00   ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-30  9:02 ` Henry Gebhardt
2011-05-30  9:10   ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-30  9:11 ` Mick
2011-05-31 16:16 ` [gentoo-user] " András Csányi

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