Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:16:08PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Ken Moffat wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:52:40PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>
>> I'm rerunning a full build right now. I intended to check all tests,
>> but it's not done yet. I did leave /etc/localtime set at GMT, but in
>> some cases have set 'TZ=UTC0 make check' or a variation.
>>
>> We probably should be doing the zone date the same as Debian, but TZ
>> should override /etc/localtime.
>>
>> This seems to be one of the more complex upgrades to LFS in some time.
>> I don't know if glibc did us a favor or not.
>>
>> -- Bruce
>>
>
> With the the zone data done like Debian, I now have the following
> results:
>
> e2fsprogs-1.42.5
> 125 tests succeeded 0 tests failed
>
> Testsuite summary for GNU coreutils 8.17
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 316
> # PASS: 295
> # SKIP: 21
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL: 0
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
>
> perl-5.16.1
> All tests successful.
>
> patch-2.6.1
> All tests succeeded!
>
> Which (I think) fixes all the failures related to timezones.
>
> What I'm doing (reformatted to fit into 70 columns) is:
>
> mkdir -pv /usr/share/zoneinfo/{posix,right}
> for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa \
> antarctica asia australasia backward pacificnew solar87 \
> solar88 solar89 systemv; do
> zic -L /dev/null -d /usr/share/zoneinfo -y "sh yearistype.sh" \
> ${tz} &&
> zic -L /dev/null -d /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix -y "sh \
> yearistype.sh" ${tz} &&
> zic -L leapseconds -d /usr/share/zoneinfo/right -y "sh \
> yearistype.sh" ${tz}
> done &&
> cp -v *.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo &&
> zic -d /usr/share/zoneinfo -p America/New_York
>
> i.e. create the posix and right directories, then run zic three
> times in each loop, and finally create the posixrules file.
>
> I can fix this up in the book if that's OK with everyone ?
>
> Separately, and after that, I would like to move tzdata and
> creating /etc/localtime to a new section immediately after glibc :
>
> 1. the glibc section installs glibc and the locales, then does
> configuring i.e. nsswitch and ld.so.conf
>
> 2. the tzdata installs the zones and posixrules, then has a
> configuring section to set /etc/localtime.
>
> My reason for this is that whenever your TZ rules need to be
> updated, you can then just drop in the new rules and recreate
> /etc/localtime [ not sure if running processes will be affected ? I
> suppose I could test that on a desktop by just changing
> /etc/localtime ? ]. So, we could point this out in the explanation.
>
> Opinions about splitting tzdata to a new page ?
I think that's fine. Go ahead and do it.
-- Bruce
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