http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172521
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172521#c3
--- Comment #3 from Marketa Calabkova
%post if [ ! -L /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules ]; then rm -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules ln -sf /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules fi if [ -e /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules.rpmnew ]; then rm -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules.rpmnew fi
from changelog 2016g: """ * The following change was previously patched in the package and is now upstream: + If the installed localtime and/or posixrules files are symbolic links, zic now keeps them symbolic links when updating them, for compatibility with platforms like openSUSE where other programs configure these files as symlinks. + zic now avoids hard linking to symbolic links, avoids some unnecessary mkdir and stat system calls, and uses shorter file names internally. + Drop the patches: ... """ Maybe the changes were part of the fix, but they were forgotten? Just a guess.
With read-only root filesystems and transactional-updates, this is a bad idea.
What exactly is a bad idea, please?
Since this is pretty old code looking like some update cleanup, I question if we need that at all or couldn't remove it completely.
"pretty old"? How old? Could you please point me to an exact revision? AFAIK there is no "osc blame", so I can not find it myself. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.