-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:41:48 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
> >> Symlinking is not recommended as it breaks when /usr is on a > >> separate filesystem. The file should be copied instead. > >> > > > > Are you sure you're not confusing that with hardlinking? > > > > Because AFAIK symlinking is the only linking that can cross > > filesystem borders. It can... if the filesystem is mounted at the time. AFAIR this causes problem setting the timezone at boot time. > Symlinking works (over filesystem borders, too, Pandu is right) and > it even "autoupdates" localtime when (why ever) something in zoneinfo > changes... The localtime files change all the time, look at how often timezone-data is updated. Everyone some bright spark comes up with another clever way of squeezing 25 hours into a day, his country's DST rules change. That's why openrc has a setting to manage this automatically for you. - -- Neil Bothwick Make like a tree and leave. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8VcnMACgkQum4al0N1GQPbRQCfSP/xhZyb5pvn9RY4B/OfcsHT B5UAn1QvHsp22qTsEaOGZ43HMQDvWhsm =p+9j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
