On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 08:21:16PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >
> > But in the meantime I've been thinking - this is the > > weekend, _most_ people who post are in the Northern hemisphere where > > it is a peak holiday season : there is no need to rush into deciding > > if we separately package tzdata ! > > I'm not aware of any holiday time here in North America. > Maybe not. > > First, the zones need to be fixed - I'll get to that when I've > > finished some unrelated tests. There is still time for people > > to comment on whether we should fix jhalfs or fix the packaging. > > Yes, but there are a lot of issues I saw in the Debian rules that we > don't address. I don't know enough details. Debian does not seem to > copy the .tab files (may not be needed), does some things for Java > (definitely not needed for LFS) and does some different things for > embedded systems, templates, and i18n. They also do some things with a > program called fdupes which I haven't seen before. > As I said, for embedded they *only* install the (posix) rules in zoneinfo itself. I guess the logic is that an embedded box will not get an update, so better to save the footprint. The fdupes is to convert hardlinks to symlinks, I can only assume they do that for packaging. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
