Source: live-config Version: 5.20151121 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? While configuring the live-config.timezone parameter (on kernel boot parameter or by config.conf file) to any value, hence 'Europe/Paris', the only result is the 'Etc/UTC' timezone set. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Looked up the '0070-tzdata' component source file and find that the process to change timezone is: 1/ echoing the timezone to the '/etc/timezone' file (ex: echo "Europe/Paris">/etc/timezone ) 2/ call to the reconfiguration of tzdata package ( "dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive -p critical tzdata" ) If I try to do the same thing by hand, I can se that: 1/ echoing works fine (hopefully :) ) 2/ call to the tzdata package reconfiguration do not return any error, BUT the '/etc/timezone' file content has been modified by the reconfiguration process. I thought then the package tzdata was misconfigured or with errors. Looking up the https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg- glibc/tzdata.git/tree/debian/tzdata.config#n329 we can identify that the tzdata configuration process override the '/etc/timezone' file if '/etc/localtime' exists and is a symlink. I really think I get something! We may unlink '/etc/localtime' in https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-live/live- config.git/tree/components/0070-tzdata#n50 before calling 'dpkg-reconfigure ... tzdata' -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>From b10d7cf76929325741e51479099cc7d2a233f9c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Gr=C3=A9gory=20DAVID?= <groo...@groolot.net> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:32:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Unlink /etc/localtime if exists before calling reconfiguration --- components/0070-tzdata | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/components/0070-tzdata b/components/0070-tzdata index 2677c37..f0a338b 100755 --- a/components/0070-tzdata +++ b/components/0070-tzdata @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ Config () fi echo "${_AREA}/${_ZONE}" > /etc/timezone + if [ -L /etc/localtime ] ; then + unlink /etc/localtime + fi dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive -p critical tzdata # Creating state file -- 2.7.0