freebsd security - Jun 2015 - Leap Second

Perter,

The file is in src and is used by zic to compile zoneinfo files.  Please
read src/share/zoneinfo/Makefile.

Pawel.


On 23 June 2015 at 21:56, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2015-Jun-23 20:03:35 +0100, Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >As we (hopefully) all know on 30th of June we'll observe leap
second.
> > tzdata information was updated in release 2015a in January.
> ...
> >I believe that FreeBSD Project should issue Errata Notices for all
> >supported version with update to share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list file.
>
> None of my FreeBSD systems have a share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list file.
> Why should the Project issue an EN for a non-existent file?
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>


-- 
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even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

On 2015-Jun-23 22:00:49 +0100, Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki at
gmail.com> wrote:
>On 23 June 2015 at 21:56, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-Jun-23 20:03:35 +0100, Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki at
gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >As we (hopefully) all know on 30th of June we'll observe leap
second.
>> > tzdata information was updated in release 2015a in January.
>> ...
>> >I believe that FreeBSD Project should issue Errata Notices for all
>> >supported version with update to share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
file.
>The file is in src and is used by zic to compile zoneinfo files.  Please
>read src/share/zoneinfo/Makefile.
Maybe you need to read that file - nowhere does it mention leap-seconds.list.
The closest is the LEAPSECONDS option: If LEAPSECONDS is defined at build
time, /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/leapseconds is baked into the individual
timezone files (to be) installed into /usr/share/zoneinfo.  This is not the
default on FreeBSD and according to ctime(3), doing so breaks POSIX
compliance.

You still haven't explained why the FreeBSD Project needs to issue an EN
to update the (non-existent) share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list file.

Obviously, if you've done something non-standard, you may need to make some
local changes but the FreeBSD Project does no issue ENs for unsupported
configurations.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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