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PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:43 am    Post subject: Newb: How to patch for Commonwealth Games DST Reply with quote

Sorry for such a basic linux question.

The Commonwealth Games are being held in March in Melbourne, Australia.

A few Australian states, mine included, have changed the daylight saving time transition end dates to the first Sunday of April 2006.

How do I alter my time-zone information to take this change into account?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The instructions here apply:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060117170839977

I don't know if there's a more "gentoo" way to do it.
Since the files under /usr/share/zoneinfo are owned by glibc and not their own package, I doubt it.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:54 pm    Post subject: A way to correct this... Reply with quote

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge sys-libs/timezone-data -a

PS: If you reinstall glibc-2.3.5-r2 or below you will be required to remerge this package.

UPDATE!!! [27/March/2006] The above way is not the best/correct way as commented by amne below.

Added to /etc/portage/package.keywords (if on the x86 architecture):
Code:
=sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b ~x86


Then emerge timezone-data-2006b:
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emerge =sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b -a


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its not a bug, its a feature! :)
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

twyford wrote:
Its not a bug, its a feature! :)


And it's going to badly affect some Australians, especially those who run NTP and believe that their time will be correct... Their time will be off by an hour for an entire week and most likely not know how to correct it.

I think someone in the Gentoo Community should be speaking loudly and warning the affected users...
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

why is this critical update masked ? ...surely this should have been unmasked months ago ?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yikes!!! 8O

I had heard that Microsoft was scrambling to issue a patch for this, and was feeling all smug that of course my Gentoo system wouldn't be affected.

This morning I realized my clock was 1 hour off!

Code:
emerge timezone-data
/etc/init.d/ntp-client restart

That fixed it. But geez, I shouldn't have to go around manually fixing the time on all my systems!

[Edit: I run an amd64 system, on which timezone-data is unmasked. On x86, bizarrely, it's currently still masked. So you first need to add "sys-libs/timezone-data ~x86" to /etc/portage/package.keywords.]


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree, this was handled rather poorly by gentoo.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's okay. You should just be happy that you don't use your Gentoo box to wake you up on Monday morning...

FWIW, my phone incorrectly changed back an hour too. I'm damn lucky that I woke up of my own accord... going to have to set it an hour ahead for this week.

Stupid DST. :-(
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I filed a bug:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127680
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:40 pm    Post subject: Re: The "offical" way to correct this... Reply with quote

firefishy wrote:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge sys-libs/timezone-data -a


Please don't give misleading advice to people, this method for installing masked packages is obsolete for a while now and has some nasty side effects.
Either add "sys-libs/timezone-data" to your /etc/portage/package.keywords to always get the newest unstable version, or if you only want a specific version, use an entry like "=sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b".

Look at the Handbook for more information.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

col wrote:
why is this critical update masked ? ...surely this should have been unmasked months ago ?


Because it requires stabilizing new glibc revision, otherwise you'll get file collisions. So emerge timezone-data with FEATURES="-collision-protect" and be done with it. :idea:
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Move to Brisbane, and ignore the world .... :roll:
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Move to Brisbane and be ignored by the rest of the world :P
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zing!

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nah.. Keep your Gentoo in "~~x86", and don't worry about the damn planet
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

alexeyp wrote:
Nah.. Keep your Gentoo in "~~x86", and don't worry about the damn planet


Isn't that how its supposed to be? :)
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It gets better folks. The dopey bastards in the Tassie Tourism Board want to extend this again next year.
Maybe for good ...
Maybe extend it even more after that ...
Maybe for good ...
Good one.

None of which will affect me one iota of course.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah

I don't trust my wrist watch for a long time :) I simply rely on my trusted Gentoo and its allmighty ntpdate :))
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:38 am    Post subject: Silly Question Reply with quote

I haven't dealt with portage in a long while.

I have walked in to an environment where I have some Gentoo servers that have not been touched in quite a while. Do I have to do an emerge sync before trying to emerge the new time zone package? When I try to emerge it in (I added the entry to my package.keywords file) I get:

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b".

Since these boxes have not been touched in a while (I am told about a year)... is there any harm in running emerge sync?
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