7-STABLE: mergemaster tzsetup question

[Max Khon]

Christian,

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Christian Weisgerber
<naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:

> Every time I run mergemaster(8) on 7.4-STABLE, I'm now presented
> with
>
> *** There is no /var/db/zoneinfo file to update /etc/localtime.
>    You should run tzsetup
>
> Running tzsetup(8) does however not create /var/db/zoneinfo, so
> mergemaster will prompt the next time, too.  I guess I can just
> ignore it, but it seems weird that mergemaster would keep nagging
> about this.
>
> Where is /var/db/zoneinfo supposed to come from?
>
> I also notice that mergemaster can issue tzsetup arguments -C and
> -r, but tzsetup doesn't support those.

tzsetup in FreeBSD 8 and later creates /var/db/zoneinfo. It seems that
mergemaster was merged to RELENG_7 but appropiate version of tzsetup
was not.

Max