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I'm part way thru a fresh gentoo install and ran up on something in |
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the handbook guide to installing that is puzzling. |
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This URL: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Distribution_files |
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From the section of install during the chroot and start of putting |
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together the OS. |
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Under heading Timezone I find these sub headings showing examples of |
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what to do: |
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root #ls /usr/share/zoneinfo |
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root #echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone |
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And there is a little part following that says: |
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Next, reconfigure the sys-libs/timezone-data package, which will |
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update the /etc/localtime file for us, based on the /etc/timezone |
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entry. The /etc/localtime file is used by the system C library to |
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know the timezone the system is in. |
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And sys-libs/timezone-data package is a hyperlink to a page about that |
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package. |
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What is really puzzling is the the words `reconfigure' that package. |
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But then there is nothing said about what this `reconfiguring' |
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consists of. |
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It used to be we just either copied the appropriate zimezone section |
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to /etc/localtime... or symlinked it there. |
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Can anyone explain what is meant by `reconfiguring' in this context or |
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how it is done? |
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The hyperlink leads to some info about the package but there is no mention |
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there of reconfiguring either. |