https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426270 User jimomura@pathcom.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426270#c77 --- Comment #77 from Jim Omura <jimomura@pathcom.com> 2009-02-08 14:27:41 MST --- (In reply to comment #75)
This violates the FHS http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ ... what required is simply the localtime which is given in
/etc/localtime
which is a copy and *never* a link to be able to have separate / and /usr
I replaced the linked "/etc/localtime" file with a copy of the "Toronto" file from ".../zoneinfo" on the 32-bit computer and everything seems to be working correctly now (along with the patch noted above). So that seems to confirm what Joseph has said. Incidentally, regarding the question asked previously of why someone would want to separate "/usr" into a separate partition, the "FHS" you noted above specifically anticipates that some people would want to separate "/usr" in this manner and their example is that some installations might want to have a "/usr" partition so it could be mounted as "Read Only." So it is clear that the way it was working in 10.3 was correct and that the way it is working in 11.0 and 11.1 is not.
... IMHO only the UTC reference /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC should be installed also in /etc/ otherwise the loclatime is without reference and hwclock has a problem if /usr is not available. . .
I expect that "/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC" would be copied as the "/etc/localtime" when it is appropriate if the current program is just patched to make copies instead of links, so that much should be enough. It is not really a special case as far as the programming concerned -- it is just special to us humans. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.