Leo Famulari writes:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 04:01:15PM +0200, Edouard Klein wrote: >> See e.g. >> https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/guix/-/blob/beaverlabs/beaver/packages/scheme-xyz.scm#L68 >> >> Here, xlsxio and tzdir will be expanded to their full install path in >> the store. > > I'm going off-topic, but you should not patch TZDIR like this. I appreciate you going off-topic to warn me about a mistake ! Thanks :) > > The time zone database should be found dynamically at run-time via an > environment variable set by the system. Otherwise, your built package > will eventually "go stale" as the time zone database is updated, which > happens several times per year. > > Does that make sense? It does, thanks, but I'm in a bit of a pickle there because this packagge needs, for reasons outside of my control, to be deployable on a multitude of host (non-GuixSD) linux distributions, and as a docker container. In those cases, I can't expect the timezone data to be up to date or to be there at all. Even if I list tzdata as a dependency, the host system's TZDIR will not point to it. I understand that if I regularly guix pull and guix package -u, then the tzdata package will be kept up to date. Is that correct ? If it is, then I need to rebuild the .tar.gz and the docker image every so often, and this problem would be solved for the foreing distros as well. Thanks for alerting me about this ! Cheers, Edouard.
