7-STABLE: mergemaster tzsetup question

[Doug Barton]

On 12/3/2011 6:00 PM, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On 04/12/2011, at 11:12 , Doug Barton wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> If you still have a machine running 7.x (which I don't have anymore), then go for it and do your damage :-)

Well I was kind of hoping you'd be responsible for doing your own work.
:)  (You see, I'm kind of tired of doing other people's MFCs.) You can
use ref7.freebsd.org if you need a test platform.



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