Re: tzdata for Core 4 (Jakub Jelinek

["William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 earthlink net>]

Randy Easley wrote:
[snip]
>
> FC4 glibc didn't have /usr/sbin/tzdata-update (it was only introduced in
> FC5+ and later backported to RHEL4 and RHEL3).  So, after you update
> tzdata package, if the changes are in your default timezone, you need to
> return system-config-date or manually update /etc/localtime.
>
> Jakub
>
>
> Why can't you run yum update tzdata or use up2date???

The tzdata-update Jakub refers to is run as part of the glibc post-install
script.  It doesn't matter what you use to install it (RPM, yum, up2date,
whatever).  Since the FC4 glibc doesn't have the tzdata-update you need to
do something else to update /etc/localtime.  Perhaps this page about RHEL
will help:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_79_9950

There is a section that discusses what to do if you don't have
tzdata-update (obviously the section about updating to the RHEL glibc
won't apply).

-- 
William Hooper