Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables.
On Monday 16 March 2009 21:18:16 Caleb Cushing wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: As per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml under the Clock heading. I know, reading documentation is an acquired taste... ;-) I've never seen this documentation before, didn't know it existed. maybe things like the timezone-data ebuild could refer to it in the 'info' message (the kernel used to do this with the kernel migration guide) openrc spams it every time you upgrade. i can tweak the timezone-data ebuild as well though. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables.
On 23:45 Sun 15 Mar , Caleb Cushing wrote: * You have an invalid TIMEZONE setting in /etc/timezone * Your /etc/localtime has been reset to Factory; enjoy! * Updating /etc/localtime with /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory cat /etc/timezone TIMEZONE=EST5EDT I can't figure out what this file wants. I've tried several settings and I don't seem to be able to get it right. (maybe a bug?) so maybe timezone-data should install the file with a default, and some examples. because updating documentation is always a good thing. It's getting hard to keep track of where things are moving to. like where I'm supposed to set things like EDITOR, and XSESSION with openrc moving everything around, could we please put these things in one place? /etc/env.d or /etc/conf.d? also could all the necessary files be created for us? I think this should apply to /etc/env.d/02locale as well. I don't see why this isn't created with some comments by default. Because env.d isn't under CONFIG_PROTECT so your modifications to any package-installed file are overwritten on every update. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpPZsSqBV91r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables.
Daniel Verkamp wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: * You have an invalid TIMEZONE setting in /etc/timezone * Your /etc/localtime has been reset to Factory; enjoy! * Updating /etc/localtime with /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory cat /etc/timezone TIMEZONE=EST5EDT I believe the entire file contents should be EST5EDT sans quotes; I don't know if this is documented anywhere... the only entry for 'man timezone' is for the function in time.h. As per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml under the Clock heading. I know, reading documentation is an acquired taste... ;-) -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (lxde, media, qt, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison __
Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: As per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml under the Clock heading. I know, reading documentation is an acquired taste... ;-) I've never seen this documentation before, didn't know it existed. maybe things like the timezone-data ebuild could refer to it in the 'info' message (the kernel used to do this with the kernel migration guide) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
[gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables.
* You have an invalid TIMEZONE setting in /etc/timezone * Your /etc/localtime has been reset to Factory; enjoy! * Updating /etc/localtime with /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory cat /etc/timezone TIMEZONE=EST5EDT I can't figure out what this file wants. I've tried several settings and I don't seem to be able to get it right. (maybe a bug?) so maybe timezone-data should install the file with a default, and some examples. because updating documentation is always a good thing. It's getting hard to keep track of where things are moving to. like where I'm supposed to set things like EDITOR, and XSESSION with openrc moving everything around, could we please put these things in one place? /etc/env.d or /etc/conf.d? also could all the necessary files be created for us? I think this should apply to /etc/env.d/02locale as well. I don't see why this isn't created with some comments by default. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables.
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: * You have an invalid TIMEZONE setting in /etc/timezone * Your /etc/localtime has been reset to Factory; enjoy! * Updating /etc/localtime with /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory cat /etc/timezone TIMEZONE=EST5EDT I believe the entire file contents should be EST5EDT sans quotes; I don't know if this is documented anywhere... the only entry for 'man timezone' is for the function in time.h. I can't figure out what this file wants. I've tried several settings and I don't seem to be able to get it right. (maybe a bug?) so maybe timezone-data should install the file with a default, and some examples. because updating documentation is always a good thing. It's getting hard to keep track of where things are moving to. like where I'm supposed to set things like EDITOR, and XSESSION with openrc moving everything around, could we please put these things in one place? /etc/env.d or /etc/conf.d? also could all the necessary files be created for us? I think this should apply to /etc/env.d/02locale as well. I don't see why this isn't created with some comments by default. -- Caleb Cushing Thanks, -- Daniel Verkamp
