7-STABLE: mergemaster tzsetup question

[Doug Barton]

On 12/3/2011 8:14 AM, Max Khon wrote:
> 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.

Well that's embarrassing. :)

Edwin, what are the chances that you could MFC your changes to tzsetup?


Doug

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