On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 05:04:06PM +0100, Nils Freydank wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Am Samstag, den 20.03.2021 um 16:37:23 Uhr +0100 schrieb "Andreas K. Huettel" > <dilfri...@gentoo.org>: > > [...] > > Does anyone remember the reason for 1) ? Or is that lost in history? > > I just quote comment 3 from the linked bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/737914#c3: > "copying the zonefile to /etc/localtime is a good idea, as /usr could be on a > separate partition. How about creating the > > /etc/TZ -> /etc/timezone softlink by default?" > > In my opinion so many tools tend to expect an always-mounted /usr that the > symlink would not do any harm. FWIW I use symlinks on a handfull Gentoo > machines > and had no issues in years, but I'm pretty close to mainstream (amd64, glibc, > OpenRC).
I'm not sure which symlink you are talking about, so I am adding my comments here. /etc/localtime should definitely be a symlink to the proper file in /usr/share/zoneinfo. This works fine if /usr is on a separate partition *and* you are using an initramfs. The only time it doesn't work is if /usr is separate without using an initramfs. Council decided years ago that we don't support separate /usr without an initramfs, but we haven't completed that transition yet. William
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