[kde-linux] clock off by an hour

[David Jarvie]

On Wed, October 28, 2009 6:16 pm, Duncan wrote:
> I'm on Gentoo as well.  FWIW, normal Gentoo philosophy is to ship pure
> upstream sources as much as possible, only patching where necessary to
> lineup paths (where hardcoded), or to "un-hardcode" CFLAGS, etc, or to
> fix automagic dependencies that don't obey the normal configure type
> options, so they obey what's fed in, that sort of stuff.
>
> Of course that's not to say the configure options are always as expected
> or as shipped by most distributions, especially when most of them are
> individual installation controlled via CFLAGS.
>
> Anyway, a quick check reveals no symlinks at all in the
> sys-libs/timezone-data-2009p package (freshly updated a few minutes ago,
> as it happens).  The only USE flag is nls, which controls whether the NSL
> environmental variable is set to 0 or 1 during compile (and an LDLIBS
> addition if not on glibc).  There is one patch, doing the following
> according to the comments therein:
>
>  - Fix up default paths
>  - Support env DESTDIR / LDFLAGS / CFLAGS / CC
>  - Use awk instead of nawk
>  - Don't build/install libtz.a
>  - Don't install man-pages provided by sys-apps/man-pages
>  - Move zic zdump to sbin and tzselect to bin ala glibc
>  - Install posix zoneinfo into zoneinfo/posix/ instead of zoneinfo-posix/
> ala glibc
>  - Install leaps zoneinfo into zoneinfo/right/ ala glibc
>  - Disable broken web test
>  - Make sure tzselect uses #!/bin/bash and not #!/bin/ksh
>  - Flags to the linking are passed as LDFLAGS, not LFLAGS
>  - LDFLAGS was missed for the 'date' target
>
> IOW, Gentoo ships timezone-data pretty much as upstream ships it, at
> least in terms of the actual zoneinfo files (with the posix and leap-
> second changes listed above).  If other distributions trim stuff from
> what's shipped, that's their deal, but Gentoo ships the files upstream
> provides.  The bottom line is that those US/* files are in the upstream
> package.
>
> Here's a complete list of the files included in the package, courtesy of
> the "equery files timezone-data" command (long list, this'll increase the
> linecount of this post! =:^\ :

Thanks. I've added the information you've supplied to the bug report.

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David Jarvie.
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