Every time I run mergemaster(8) on 7.4-STABLE, I'm now presented
with
*** There is no /var/db/zoneinfo file to update /etc/localtime.
You should run tzsetup
Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so
mergemaster will prompt the next time, too. I guess I can just
ignore it, but it seems weird that mergemaster would keep nagging
about this.
Where is /var/db/zoneinfo supposed to come from?
I also notice that mergemaster can issue tzsetup arguments -C and
-r, but tzsetup doesn't support those.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber
naddy@mips.inka.de
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:24:54PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:> Every time I run mergemaster(8) on 7.4-STABLE, I'm now presented > with > > *** There is no /var/db/zoneinfo file to update /etc/localtime. > You should run tzsetup > > Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so > mergemaster will prompt the next time, too. I guess I can just > ignore it, but it seems weird that mergemaster would keep nagging > about this. > > Where is /var/db/zoneinfo supposed to come from?It's a path, relative to /usr/share/zoneinfo, for the source of the file that was copied to /etc/localtime. Thus, in my case, it reads: America/Los_Angeles on my laptop. For machines that run UTC, it's not needed.> ...Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20111203/754a72ea/attachment.pgp
Christian, On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:> Every time I run mergemaster(8) on 7.4-STABLE, I'm now presented > with > > *** There is no /var/db/zoneinfo file to update /etc/localtime. > ? ?You should run tzsetup > > Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so > mergemaster will prompt the next time, too. ?I guess I can just > ignore it, but it seems weird that mergemaster would keep nagging > about this. > > Where is /var/db/zoneinfo supposed to come from? > > I also notice that mergemaster can issue tzsetup arguments -C and > -r, but tzsetup doesn't support those.tzsetup in FreeBSD 8 and later creates /var/db/zoneinfo. It seems that mergemaster was merged to RELENG_7 but appropiate version of tzsetup was not. Max
On 03/12/2011 15:24, Christian Weisgerber wrote:> Every time I run mergemaster(8) on 7.4-STABLE, I'm now presented > with > > *** There is no /var/db/zoneinfo file to update /etc/localtime. > You should run tzsetup > > Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so > mergemaster will prompt the next time, too. I guess I can just > ignore it, but it seems weird that mergemaster would keep nagging > about this. > > Where is /var/db/zoneinfo supposed to come from? > > I also notice that mergemaster can issue tzsetup arguments -C and > -r, but tzsetup doesn't support those. >tzsetup(8) does create /var/db/zoneinfo in 8.2-STABLE. It's just a very small text file containing the default timezone name -- eg. I have: % cat zoneinfo Europe/London Just creating that file will quiet mergemaster, although it won't be of any use to tzsetup in 7.4-STABLE. Looks like this MFC only went into stable/8, and not stable/7: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=220183 but the related /var/db/zoneinfo code in mergemaster was merged to stable/7 (as well as stable/8): http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=227150 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 267 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20111203/f616b1f3/signature.pgp
On 12/03/2011 07:24, Christian Weisgerber wrote:> Every time I run mergemaster(8) on 7.4-STABLE, I'm now presented > with > > *** There is no /var/db/zoneinfo file to update /etc/localtime. > You should run tzsetup > > Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so > mergemaster will prompt the next time, too. I guess I can just > ignore it, but it seems weird that mergemaster would keep nagging > about this. > > Where is /var/db/zoneinfo supposed to come from? > > I also notice that mergemaster can issue tzsetup arguments -C and > -r, but tzsetup doesn't support those.Once again, my apologies for assuming that my esteemed colleagues had done the responsible thing and MFC'ed their own work. I have resolved this issue by going back and doing 3 1/2 years of MFCs for tzsetup(8), which now makes it identical to the code in stable/8. If you update your src tree and then update tzsetup you should no longer experience this problem. Doug -- [^L] Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/