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On 17.01.2012 14:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:41:48 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: |
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>>>> Symlinking is not recommended as it breaks when /usr is on a |
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>>>> separate filesystem. The file should be copied instead. |
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>>> Are you sure you're not confusing that with hardlinking? |
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>>> Because AFAIK symlinking is the only linking that can cross |
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>>> filesystem borders. |
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> It can... if the filesystem is mounted at the time. AFAIR this |
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> causes problem setting the timezone at boot time. |
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>> Symlinking works (over filesystem borders, too, Pandu is right) |
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>> and it even "autoupdates" localtime when (why ever) something in |
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>> zoneinfo changes... |
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> The localtime files change all the time, look at how often |
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> timezone-data is updated. Everyone some bright spark comes up with |
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> another clever way of squeezing 25 hours into a day, his country's |
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> DST rules change. That's why openrc has a setting to manage this |
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> automatically for you. |
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I know that it happens, I just fail to understand why... ;) |
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