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On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:29 -0500, Eric Martin wrote: |
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> Why copy? when stuff gets updated you'll have to copy again. I'd |
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> suggest making a symlink. Also, I see the timestamps and sizes are the |
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> same, but are the md5's the same? If not, these aren't the same file. |
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> </random longshot suggestion> |
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Copy is what the emerge does. So when it's updated you get the fresh one |
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for free. |
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Actually, originally it was (suggested) that localtime was a symlink. |
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This was later changed. The reasoning for the change are as follows. |
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/etc/init.d/clock is run pretty early in the init process; before all |
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filesystems in /etc/fstab are mounted. If /usr/share/zoneinfo is on a |
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filesystem that is not mounted when /etc/init.d/clock is run then it |
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will fail and ugly things will happen. Therefore it's suggested what |
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instead of a symlink /etc/localtime should be a physical file on the |
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(root) filesystem. |
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Probably for most people this is not an issue but apparently it was for |
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some. |
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