Making /etc/localtime a symlink?

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Sat Apr 1 13:25:29 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 03:12:25PM +0200, Stefan Neufeind wrote:

> So imho this would involve bundling /etc/localtime as a symlink in
> glibc, a dep to tzdata (there is a dep from glibc-common to tzdata) and
> adjusting installer etc. to not make copies but create symlinks.

In the past it was a symlink, IIRC (RHL 7/8 or even older).

But /usr may not be mounted, maybe that's the reason for a real file.

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