-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17.01.2012 14:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > > I know that it happens, I just fail to understand why... ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
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