Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@×××××××.us>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] timezone during stage4
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:24:58
Message-Id: 20130225232444.GA16303@odin.tremily.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] timezone during stage4 by Peter Stuge
1 On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:18:15AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
2 > W. Trevor King wrote:
3 > > > My above idea of copying /etc/localtime into the chroot during
4 > > > chroot_setup and either just removing it or replacing it with a
5 > > > file from an optional to-be-added spec file parameter seems like it
6 > > > would work - how do people feel about that?
7 > >
8 > > FWIW, I'd prefer an early-acting root_overlay analog.
9 > ..
10 > > if we've missed timezones, we're probably missing something else ;)
11 >
12 > It's not a bad idea, but OTOH copying /etc/localtime and just
13 > removing it again needs no new parameter and would be quite a
14 > simple patch.
15
16 But then why not just copy over the portage tree too, instead of going
17 through the snapshot procedure? I think the point of catalyst is to
18 isolate the final tarballs/ISOs from the host system used to build
19 them. Otherwise we could skip stages and catalyst, building the
20 tarballs in a simple chroot.
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] timezone during stage4 Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>