On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:57:51AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 30.05.2011 10:15, schrieb András Csányi: > > The localization guide seems to be in a poor state. Copying the zoneinfo > file from /usr/share... to /etc/localtime is not the best way to do it > because then you miss updates. It is better to create a symlink between > the two.
Copying is just fine. The timezone-data ebuild will update /etc/localtime for you on the next update, and replace the symlink if you have one there. The reason, IIRC, being that /usr might not yet be mounted during early boot. H
