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 da...@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.
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