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On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 7:58 PM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 2021-03-20 16:37, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> > 2) Most other distros seem to just do |
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> No, not most distros are doing that. systemd is forcing that downstream |
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> (the result is the same)! |
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> It was added via |
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> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/92c4ef2d357baeef78b6f82f119b92f7ed12ac77 |
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> without mentioning a reason. |
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Based on that commit message, it looks systemd switched to looking at |
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the symlink target instead of /etc/timezone well *after* some major |
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distro started using a symlink for /etc/localtime. I suspect Kay |
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Sievers noticed that the content of /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime |
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were redundant on his development machine, and added a TODO entry to |
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eliminate the redundant /etc/timezone file. |
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In other words, this isn't a case of systemd forcing distros to |
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symlink /etc/localtime; they were already doing that anyway. |
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