On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 11:48 -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:22:01PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov thus spake: > >Same here, though I'd be happy to change this habit if mergemaster > >handled the updates for me. > > > This would be a good solution for source updates, but how would this work > for binary upgrades via freebsd-update, as mergemaster is not used for this > operation.
How we solved this back in 2006 when Congress altered the times that Daylight Saving is observed, we pushed out an internal package that: ( Before Installation ) 1a. If /etc/localtime is a symbolic link, proceed to installation (no update needed). 1b. If /etc/localtime is a binary file,... 2. Compare /etc/localtime against each locale in /usr/share/zoneinfo 3. If you find a match, "remember" which timezone matched ( After Installation ) 4. If /etc/localtime was binary and matched some locale in /usr/share/zoneinfo, copy updated zoneinfo to /etc/localtime (overwriting the current file). -- Devin > > -jgh > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
