Re: Timezone setting

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Seems ok to me.

----- "Radek Vykydal" <rvykydal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinkig about change of timezone setting in fedora,
> there are two related things:
> 
> 1) setting timezone during installation ("setuptime" step)
> fails because we don't have /usr/share/zoneinfo tree in stage2.
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473647)
> 
> We can either move "setuptime" step after "installpackages" step
> and use just installed timezone tree, or keep the zoneinfo tree in
> stage2
> (cca 5.5 MB). I'm for the former, it seems safe to me based on
> what I saw in the code and a quick test. Patch is attached.
> 
> 2) there is request (RFE) for allowing more timezone specifiers,
> not only these in /usr/shar/zoneinfo/zone.tab which we use
> for ks value checking (in case of failure we ask in UI).
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461526)
> 
> I can see three ways how to have more specifiers along with
> ks value checking:
> - Keep zoneinfo tree in stage2 to check against.
> - Check with file generated from the tree in buildinstall
>   (we used to have timezone.gz i think).
> - Add --nocheck option to timezone ks option to prevent
>   check and asking in UI. If we don't find the timezone
>   when setting it (according to 1) in installed zoneinfo tree),
>   fail to set it during installation, and for installed system
>   use default value.
> 
> As we moved from the first two in fedora, I'd opt for the last one.
> 
> Radek
> 
> 
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