John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> writes: [...]
>> root #ls /usr/share/zoneinfo >> >> root #echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone >> >> And there is a little part following that says: >> >> Next, reconfigure the sys-libs/timezone-data package, which will >> update the /etc/localtime file for us, based on the /etc/timezone >> entry. The /etc/localtime file is used by the system C library to >> know the timezone the system is in. >> [...] > > I just copied /usr/share/zoneinfo<whatever> to /etc/localtime and > have never had any problems. I also put the name in /etc/timezone and > all seems to have worked for a number of years. Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: [...] > emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data > > All it does is copy the timezone data to /etc/localtime. > > Setting /etc/timezone is still important, because it ensures that > anytime the package is updated the new data is copied over (a symlink > would also accomplish this). > > Using emerge --config is a bit more elegant since it will tell you if > you made any mistakes in /etc/timezone, and perhaps at some point in > the future it might do other things. But, you are correct that the > instructions used to just say to copy the file and be done with it, > and there is no real harm in doing it that way. Just introducing > users to emerge --config probably has a little value in it. Thank you both for even bothering to answer. Somehow seeing emerge blinded me to the `--config' ... just saw some emerge args I guess. Don't think I've had occassion to use emerge --config before. I did try to cancel my post within a minute or less of posting it and it did cancel on my newsfeed. But apparently not the larger readerships'.
