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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] add /etc/timezone and replace content according to /etc/localtime
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 08:22:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120404062223.GM28453@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332865524-6288-1-git-send-email-post@lespocky.de>

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 06:25:24PM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> Additionally to /etc/localtime which points to one zoneinfo file in
> /usr/share/zoneinfo there is /etc/timezone containing the system wide
> zone. Debian updates both in parallel and systemd uses this too. It's
> an easy way to find out about the current system time zone. Rules are
> extended in a way you only have to put e.g. 'Europe/Berlin' to ptxdist
> menuconfig and symlink /etc/localtime and file /etc/timezone are
> created at build time.
> 
> This patch is a suggestion which works for me, open for discussion.

And I liked it. Applied.

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
> ---
>  generic/etc/timezone |    1 +
>  rules/timezone.in    |   12 +++++++-----
>  rules/timezone.make  |   10 ++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 generic/etc/timezone
> 
> diff --git a/generic/etc/timezone b/generic/etc/timezone
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..f743783
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/generic/etc/timezone
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +@TIMEZONE@
> diff --git a/rules/timezone.in b/rules/timezone.in
> index a1ed5b1..33a05eb 100644
> --- a/rules/timezone.in
> +++ b/rules/timezone.in
> @@ -14,14 +14,16 @@ menuconfig TIMEZONE
>  comment "Timezone support"
>  	depends on TIMEZONE
>  
> -config GLIBC_LOCALTIME_LINK
> -	prompt "Link of /etc/localtime"
> +config GLIBC_LOCALTIME
> +	prompt "Timezone for /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone"
>  	depends on TIMEZONE
> -	default "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin"
> +	default "Europe/Berlin"
>  	string
>  	help
> -	  Where should /etc/localtime point to.
> -	  (e.g. /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin)
> +	  Where should /etc/localtime point to? (e.g. put in "Europe/Berlin"
> +	  here to let it point to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin)
> +	  Additionally this value is written to /etc/timezone like on Debian
> +	  or for systemd.
>  
>  config TIMEZONE_LOCAL_DATABASE
>  	bool
> diff --git a/rules/timezone.make b/rules/timezone.make
> index d208f14..28ed35e 100644
> --- a/rules/timezone.make
> +++ b/rules/timezone.make
> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ PACKAGES-$(PTXCONF_TIMEZONE) += timezone
>  TIMEZONE_VERSION	:= 1.0
>  TIMEZONE		:= timezone-$(TIMEZONE_VERSION)
>  
> +TIMEZONE_LOCALTIME_FILE	:= /usr/share/zoneinfo/$(PTXCONF_GLIBC_LOCALTIME)
> +
>  TIMEZONE-$(PTXCONF_TIMEZONE_AFRICA) := "Africa"
>  TIMEZONE-$(PTXCONF_TIMEZONE_ATLANTIC) += "Atlantic"
>  TIMEZONE-$(PTXCONF_TIMEZONE_EUROPE) += "Europe"
> @@ -117,8 +119,12 @@ $(STATEDIR)/timezone.targetinstall:
>  		$(call install_copy, timezone, 0, 0, 0655, -, /usr/share/zoneinfo/$$f,n); \
>          done
>  
> -ifdef PTXCONF_GLIBC_LOCALTIME_LINK
> -	@$(call install_link, timezone, ..$(PTXCONF_GLIBC_LOCALTIME_LINK), /etc/localtime)
> +ifdef PTXCONF_GLIBC_LOCALTIME
> +	@$(call install_link, timezone, ..$(TIMEZONE_LOCALTIME_FILE), \
> +		/etc/localtime)
> +	@$(call install_alternative, timezone, 0, 0, 0644, /etc/timezone)
> +	@$(call install_replace, timezone, /etc/timezone, @TIMEZONE@, \
> +		$(PTXCONF_GLIBC_LOCALTIME))
>  endif
>  
>  	@$(call install_finish, timezone)
> -- 
> 1.7.2.5
> 
> 
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2012-03-27 16:25 Alexander Dahl
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