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On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 05:04:06PM +0100, Nils Freydank wrote: |
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> Hi Andreas, |
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> Am Samstag, den 20.03.2021 um 16:37:23 Uhr +0100 schrieb "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>: |
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> > [...] |
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> > Does anyone remember the reason for 1) ? Or is that lost in history? |
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> I just quote comment 3 from the linked bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/737914#c3: |
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> "copying the zonefile to /etc/localtime is a good idea, as /usr could be on a separate partition. How about creating the |
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> /etc/TZ -> /etc/timezone softlink by default?" |
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> In my opinion so many tools tend to expect an always-mounted /usr that the |
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> symlink would not do any harm. FWIW I use symlinks on a handfull Gentoo machines |
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> and had no issues in years, but I'm pretty close to mainstream (amd64, glibc, |
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> OpenRC). |
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I'm not sure which symlink you are talking about, so I am adding my |
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comments here. |
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/etc/localtime should definitely be a symlink to the proper file in |
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/usr/share/zoneinfo. |
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This works fine if /usr is on a separate partition *and* you are using |
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an initramfs. The only time it doesn't work is if /usr is separate |
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without using an initramfs. |
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Council decided years ago that we don't support separate /usr without an |
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initramfs, but we haven't completed that transition yet. |
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William |
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