On 08/02/13 12:07, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tomas Frydrych > <tf+lists.yo...@r-finger.com> wrote: >> On 08/02/13 11:55, Burton, Ross wrote: >>> On 8 February 2013 11:38, Otavio Salvador <ota...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: >>>>> Can you fix the code to symlink instead of copy? systemd and more >>>>> needs a symlink so that it can identify the name of the timezone from >>>>> the link target. >>>> >>>> You mean inside the if? >>> >>> I mean in general /etc/localtime should be a symlink and not a copy. >> >> /etc/localtime is a real file so that /etc is not containing a link to a >> file in /usr; this has historically been the case unless I am not >> mistaken. systemd should grow up and read the contents :). > > In fact a lot of software expects it to be a symlink so it shouldn't be a > copy.
Lot of software does thing without understanding what it is doing, that's the nature of software. :) My point is that the code in the current recipe is not doing the unconditional copy by mistake, it is doing so intentionally so that local clock can work without /usr. Only systems that mandate the presence of /usr can use a symlink -- so this is not a bug fix but a change in an established system behaviour. If nothing else, the commit message should be clear in this regard. Tomas -- http://sleepfive.com _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
