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Re: [PATCH] Add --disable-timezone configure option


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:49:01AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure there's much benefit to actually having a package include
> >> copies of the data rather than having a --with- argument pointing to where
> >> the data files may be found. ?By using --with, the package would only need
> >> updating pretty infrequently (and people generally want minimal latency
> >> when getting tzdata updates).
> >
> > I hadn't thought of that. ?It sounds fine too.
> 
> I also like the idea of a --with- argument because it helps us run the
> tests against the tzdata provided by the distro.
> 
> We should *also* IMO include legacy tzdata binaries in glibc to test
> compatibility with old formats, I am 100% for including old binary
> data (not in the source, but in a seperate checkout to avoid the pain
> of grep'ing through binary data e.g. --with-glibc-data).
> 
> Where are the distro's getting the tzdata from?
> 

I got copied to this mail, so I guess people are waiting input from me
about how it is done in Debian.

In Debian we have a separate package called tzdata providing all the
data for timezones. We prefer to have a separate package in order to be
able to provide timezone updates without having to rebuild the whole GNU
libc, but also to provide a java version from the same sources (and in the
futur likely a perl version). During some period of the year they are
often a release of tzdata per week, so this is important for us to keep
them separated.

About the option itself I personally don't really care about it for the
Debian package. The 'make install' call installs them, but then we don't
install them in the package. Having an option will probably make the
build a few seconds shorter, but I don't think I am really interested
about that.


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Aurelien Jarno	                        GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
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