Could not stat file localtime

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

During install on hppa I see two error dialogs:

  Could not stat file /target/usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime.
  Could not stat file localtime.

They appear to be due to my libc6-2.2.1 containing:

lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2001-04-25 22:05:07 ./usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime -> /etc/localtime

After install I have:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           33 May 22 13:22 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London

but before selecting my timezone during install I guess /etc/localtime
doesn't exist, resulting in the errors.

The code generating the errors is round lines 238 and 265 in
boot-floppies/utilites/tzconfig.c.

Seems either that code should ignore 'localtime' when parsing the zoneinfo
directory contents, or libc6 should not include the localtime link.  Could
be an hppa libc6 problem, but I think some other arch reported it here
a couple of days ago also.

Richard