brad@Discovery:/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/SystemV > ls -l total 40 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 86 Sep 2 14:26 AST4 -> ..//var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.2.5-r5/image//usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/America/Puerto_Rico lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 82 Sep 2 14:26 AST4ADT -> ..//var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.2.5-r5/image//usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/America/Halifax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81 Sep 2 14:26 CST6 -> ..//var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.2.5-r5/image//usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/America/Regina The following was found on a Gentoo 1.2 system which had just been installed. Entries in /var/db/pkg reflect this oddity. Notably this is part of the glibc ebuild, which is a bad thing(tm)
Addendum - another hard disk which I spent the day upgrading unofficially to the 1.4 profile is proper in this respect. I will re-emerge glibc here (Gentoo 1.2, default-1.0 profile) and see if it corrects itself.
nosferatu SystemV # pwd /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/SystemV nosferatu SystemV # ls -l total 52 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78 Aug 19 03:19 AST4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1237 Aug 19 03:19 AST4ADT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 374 Aug 19 03:19 CST6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1279 Aug 19 03:19 CST6CDT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286 Aug 19 03:19 EST5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1267 Aug 19 03:19 EST5EDT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130 Aug 19 03:19 HST10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130 Aug 19 03:19 MST7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 877 Aug 19 03:19 MST7MDT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73 Aug 19 03:19 PST8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1017 Aug 19 03:19 PST8PDT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74 Aug 19 03:19 YST9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 839 Aug 19 03:19 YST9YDT nosferatu SystemV #
Re-merging the glibc ebuild corrected the issue.