Following the installation documentation of 1.4 RC 3, when it's time to do step 11, the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo does not exist. I am using the stage 1 tarball stage1-x86-1.4_rc3.tar.bz2 from distro.ibiblio.org, and according to the MD5 checksum in stage1-x86-1.4_rc3.tar.bz2.md5, file integrity is good. Can this step wait until after the bootstrap process? It was my recollection that creating this particular symbolic link was further along in the process for earlier versions.
it was further along, and the docs have been changed back to the original for now. I think we need to find another solution to this. The possible scenarios are: forgot to set BIOS time CMOS clock broken so we need to find a solution that addresses both. unless we actually include (one) default: /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC or whatever, so that the clock can be set, and then later on in the docs, have them set the actual timezone. thoughts?
/usr/share/zoneinfo used to be in stage1, and imo it really should be ...
*** Bug 16656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ok, so why do we need to set the timezone *before* bootstrap ? I cannot think why it cannot be set just after bootstrap, before emerge system ?
Martin, the time needs to be set before bootstrap so that systems with messed-up clocks with the time set to somewhere in 1980 will not cause configure scripts to fail due to dates on files being set in the future. Yes, this causes many a configure script to fail. The best solution is to set the time before doing any building, and the best way to do this is to also take care of the zoneinfo stuff at the same time. Therefore, it makes sense to add /usr/share/zoneinfo to glibc builds that appear on the stage1 to make the install process go more smoothly.
Daniel, I changed the else part of 'if [ -z "`use build`" ] to: ------------------------------------------------------- else einfo "Installing Timezone data..." make PARALLELMFLAGS="${MAKEOPTS}" \ install_root=${D} \ timezone/install-others -C buildhere || die rm -rf ${D}/usr/share ${D}/usr/lib/gconv fi -------------------------------------------------------- Which works if ${D}/usr/share/zoneinfo do not exist outside the ebuild. Do not work inside it though. Any ideas ?
Arg, dont worry, I am stupid. the rm -rf just following removes it again :P
Ok, this should be fixed for all glibc-2.3 ebuilds.
I don't believe this is fixed. So far every attempt at installation my timezone data files are missing. I'm installing with the 1.4 basic x86 cd, and I'm using the stage2 pentium4 tarball. However, if I extract the tarball again after the installation, all the timezone data files are there.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
