installworld fails on missing tzsetup when WITHOUT_DIALOG is set

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 06:51:28PM +0300, Guy Yur wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> installworld fails on missing tzsetup when src.conf has WITHOUT_DIALOG=
> and delete-old was previously run to remove tzsetup from the system.
> 
> mkdir -p /tmp/install.8gNIwAFV
> progs=$(for prog in [ awk cap_mkdb cat chflags chmod chown cmp cp
> date echo egrep find grep id install   ln make mkdir mtree mv pwd_mkdb
>  rm sed services_mkdb sh strip sysctl test true uname wc zic tzsetup
> makewhatis; do  if progpath=`which $prog`; then  echo $progpath;  else
>  echo "Required tool $prog not found in PATH." >&2;  exit 1;  fi;
> done);  libs=$(ldd -f "%o %p\n" -f "%o %p\n" $progs 2>/dev/null | sort
> -u |  while read line; do  set -- $line;  if [ "$2 $3" != "not found"
> ]; then  echo $2;  else  echo "Required library $1 not found." >&2;
> exit 1;  fi;  done);  cp $libs $progs /tmp/install.8gNIwAFV
> Required tool tzsetup not found in PATH.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> tzsetup is used in share/zoneinfo/Makefile when ${DESTDIR}/var/db/zoneinfo
> exists and some other conditions.
> 
> In my case, I don't have /var/db/zoneinfo since I manually created a symlink
> from /usr/share/zoneinfo/... to /etc/localtime instead of using tzsetup.
> 
> A possible fix is to add a WITHOUT_TZSETUP knob and not use
> tzsetup when the knob is enabled.
> 
> https://github.com/guyyur/freebsd-src_patches/blob/master/without_tzsetup_knob.patch
> (patch doesn't include regenerating src.conf.5)
> 
> Thanks,
> Guy
> _______________________________________________

My proposal is a bit different: build tzsetup without dialog support :)

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8325

Best regards,
Bapt
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