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Bug#36305: libc6: zic hardlinks /etc/localtime



At 11:06 +0200 1999-04-19, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
the following warning, which actually leads to an error, occurs if
/usr is on its own partition (and /etc/localtime is not a link -
this command is contained in libc6.postinst)

root@p6 [/etc] # zic -l `cat /etc/timezone`
"command line", line 1: warning: hard link failed, symbolic link used

This symbolic link (to ../Europe/Berlin in my case) is wrong and
doesn't work, naturally.

IMO, the best way is to create a single new file (maybe copying the file
that is now the target of the link).

zic -l seems to have changed behavior without me noticing, I have reverted to using ln -sf instead.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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