SOLVED: Is this the right / best way of updating zoneinfo only

[Murray Taylor]

( Wrapup head posted )

Thanks Kris,

I dont have a problem with the normal make world etc (do it regularly on
non production stuff, but I was kinda hoping that I could do this
zoneinfo build as a mini build on the production webserver to 
A) obviate the need to make world
B) head off a mini problem that may never actually occur with the use of
the zoneinfo data..

Push comes to shove - if a timezone/daylight savings setting needs
altering I can carefully modify the appropriate file and re-zic things.

ta
mjt

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:03, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:53:18AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote:
> > Question not responded to in a week..
> > 
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > From: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor at bytecraftsystems.com>
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Is this the right / best way of updating zoneinfo only
> > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:48:17 +1100
> > 
> > Is this the right way to update the zoneinfo data
> > used for the time / timezone related calls..
> > 
> > cvsup -STABLE
> > cd  /usr/src/share/zoneinfo
> > make 
> > make install
> > 
> > I need to ensure that the zoneinfo is upto date on say a monthly cycle
> > and dont really want or need to recompile everything...
> > I looked at the Makefile and the included bsd.prog.mk file and 
> > decided that I dont need to learn _that much_ about makefiles .. ;-)
> 
> That might work, but it's not guaranteed to always work.  There's only
> one way to safely rebuild your system, which is the one documented in
> the handbook.  In particular, piecewise updates are not supported.
> 
> zoneinfo is hardly ever updated anyway, so you may be trying to solve
> a non-problem.
> 
> Kris
> 
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