On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:29 -0500, Eric Martin wrote: > Why copy? when stuff gets updated you'll have to copy again. I'd > suggest making a symlink. Also, I see the timestamps and sizes are the > same, but are the md5's the same? If not, these aren't the same file. > </random longshot suggestion>
Copy is what the emerge does. So when it's updated you get the fresh one for free. Actually, originally it was (suggested) that localtime was a symlink. This was later changed. The reasoning for the change are as follows. /etc/init.d/clock is run pretty early in the init process; before all filesystems in /etc/fstab are mounted. If /usr/share/zoneinfo is on a filesystem that is not mounted when /etc/init.d/clock is run then it will fail and ugly things will happen. Therefore it's suggested what instead of a symlink /etc/localtime should be a physical file on the (root) filesystem. Probably for most people this is not an issue but apparently it was for some. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
