[arch-projects] [INITSCRIPTS][PATCH 1/4] localtime copy fix in to rc.conf man page

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Mon Mar 12 18:09:36 EDT 2012


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
> set_timezone function currently respect user choice of symlink to timezone file
> or copy it. man page doesn't explain this subtlety which let think that
> TIMEZONE parameter in rc.conf doesn't ensure anything.

IMHO the manpage should stay the same, and we should rather change
rc.sysinit to always ensure the symlink (the only point of doing the
copy is in case /usr is not mounted, but we don't support that any
more).

-t


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