separate out tzdata port/package

[Andriy Gapon]

on 10/11/2008 00:35 Greg Lewis said the following:
> A possible alternative is to not install zoneinfo files for any of the JDKs
> but instead create symlinks to a centrally created set of zoneinfo files
> created by the tzupdater port you're suggesting.

Greg,

this is a great idea - tzupdater.jar seems to contain tzdata*.zip file
that in turn contains actual "javazi" files.
Maybe, having control over source for freebsd javas, we could tweak java
to [first] look into /usr/local/share/javazi (or something like that)
instead of creating symlinks.


> Its not actually a
> problem that you don't have a JDK to run tzupdater with (hint: see the
> current diablo-jdk16 port and how it handles tzupdater).  For extra credit
> you could use the zoneinfo files from the existing misc/zoneinfo port
> rather than waiting for Sun to release updated tzupdater releases.  
> 
> I haven't looked into this at all, so there might be some tricks I'm
> missing.
> 


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Andriy Gapon