[Ltib] Repost with correct Subject: Timezone thoughts

[Mark Lacas]

Hello,
  Not sure if this is germane to your use case.

I got the timezone stuff to work with the BSP without adding a bunch  
of stuff.

In /etc/profile I put:

TZ=PST8PDT
export TZ

Also in my user directory .profile I put :

TZ=PST8PDT
export TZ

All my times now show up in PST without any other additions or changes.

-ml


On Jan 5, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Stuart Hughes wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
>
> You have it more or less right.  Putting the symlinkery in
> sysconfig.spec is okay, but the selection process stuff should go into
> config/userspace/sysconfig.lkc
>
> So maybe something like this would work:
>
> In sysconfig.lkc (put if after the time setup?):
>
> config SYSCFG_TIMEZONE
>     depends PKG_TIMEZONE
>     default "GMT"
>     string "timezone configuration"
>     help
>        Set this to your timezone located in "/usr/share/zoneinfo".
>        A symbolic link will be created from "/etc/localtime" to
>        the selected timezone.
>
> and then in: sysconfig.spec (after the qtopia if/then/fi stuff):
>
> if [ "$SYSCFG_TIMEZONE" ]; then
>     ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/$SYSCFG_TIMEZONE $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/% 
> {pfx}/etc/localtime
> fi
>
> You should probably also add:  SYSCFG_TIMEZONE to the list of items in
> the $config_deps hash for the entry PKG_SYSCONFIG.  What this does is
> force the package to build/install if that config item gets changed.
>
> Also note that for uClibc this may not work the same way IIRC.  If you
> get it working and check it in, can you let me know.
>
> Regards, Stuart
>
> >     ln -s $PATH_TO_ROOT_DIR/$SYSCFG_TIMEZONE $PATH_TO_ROOT_DIR/etc/ 
> > localtime
> > fi
>
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:17 +0100, Tobias Simon wrote:
> > Hello Group,
> >
> > I am trying to bring the "/etc/localtime" symlink into the  
> > sysconfig package.
> > My first question is: is this the right place to do something like  
> > that (where
> > $SYSCFG_TIMEZONE is a path):
> >
> > # timezone
> > if [ "$SYSCFG_TIMEZONE" ]; then
> >     ln -s $PATH_TO_ROOT_DIR/$SYSCFG_TIMEZONE $PATH_TO_ROOT_DIR/etc/ 
> > localtime
> > fi
> >
> > ... where $PATH_TO_ROOT_DIR is a placeholder. Unfortunately I do  
> > not know if
> > there is a environment variable like that.
> >
> > In "config/userspace/packages.lkc" I added the following:
> > config SYSCFG_TIMEZONE
> >     depends PKG_TIMEZONE
> >     default "/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT"
> >     string "timezone configuration"
> >     help
> >        Set this to your timezone located in "/usr/share/zoneinfo".
> >        A symbolic link will be created from "/etc/localtime" to
> >        the selected timezone.
> >
> > I hope anyone can help me with this.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tobi
>
>
>
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