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> De: "Ken Moffat" <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com>
> À: lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org
> Envoyé: Vendredi 17 Août 2012 18:06:34
> Objet: [lfs-dev] tzdata
>
> On support, Markku Pesonen pointed out that up to glibc-2.15 the
> tzdata was installed in both /usr/share/zoneinfo{,/posix} for data
> without leap seconds, and the data with leapseconds was installed
> into /usr/share/zoneinfo/right.
>
> He also noted that debian still do this.
>
> Taking a look at tzdata in debian, they create the zones with -L
> /dev/null, and then, except on embedded, repeat this for /posix,
> and then use -L leapseconds for /right.
>
> I assume that some apps use the /posix version and others use the
> 'regular' version. The amount of data in posix/ is only 1.9MB, I
> don't think it's worth attempting to be clever (e.g. symlinks from
> /posix/ ) and possibly again breaking things.
>
Interesting
On glibc-2.11, I made IPCop to install only in /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix.
This require for glib 'make check TZDIR=/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix'.
I didn't notice other issues.
Gilles
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