On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 01:20:47PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/tzdata-minimal > > == Summary == > Split the tzdata package into two parts - tzdata and tzdata-minimal. > tzdata will require tzdata-minimal. tzdata-minimal provides the > minimal files needed to support UTC on containers. > > == Owner == > * Name: Patsy Griffin (Franklin) > * Email: pa...@redhat.com > > > == Detailed Description == > This is the first step towards providing support for a minimal, UTC > only, version of tzdata for containers. The tzdata-minimal package > will be a stand-alone, UTC only, subset of tzdata. The tzdata package > will require tzdata-minimal. > > With this framework in place, other packages can develop code to > detect a minimal tzdata installation. These packages will also need > to provide appropriate messages when users request timezone > information not available when only tzdata-minimal is installed.
In general, I like the idea of making it easier to not install tzdata. For many machines it's completely unnecessary, and 5MB is enough to make this worthwhile. I don't know enough about all the consumers to comment on the details. FWIW, systemd-timedated already has a reasonable message that encompasses both possible errors: $ timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Warsaw2 Failed to set time zone: Invalid or not installed time zone 'Europe/Warsaw2' But I think it'd be useful to use a different message if we can distinguish the two cases. I'd be happy to take a patch... Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
