Steven Ayre <
steveayre@gmail.com> writes:
> Essentially it's simply a package that links mysql_tzinfo_to_sql and
> tzdata together using a trigger.
> When mysql-tzdata is first installed and then when tzdata is updated the
> postinst script is run, which loads the mysql_tzinfo_to_sql output into
> the mysql.timezone_* tables. That's done either as debian-sys-maint or
> by running a bootstrap copy of mysqld (depending on whether mysqld is
> already running).
> This ensures that when timezone information gets updated the update of
> tzdata automatically updates MySQL's copy too, which should keep them in
> sync. That makes it simpler to update timezones, and makes it less
> likely that MySQL's copies are out of date. Being an optional package,
> people will only get this behaviour if they choose it so they could
> still manage those tables manually if they wished.