2007 DST update for RH7.2

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Jan 5 16:23:02 UTC 2007


On Friday 05 January 2007 11:11, Paul Rupe wrote:
> I understand that no one is making updates for 7.2 anymore, so I was
> wondering if I can adapt the one for 7.3.  The timezone rules are part of
> the glibc packages.  Do I really need the new version of glibc, or can I
> simply copy the /usr/share/zoneinfo files from the updated 7.3 packages
> onto 7.2?  In other words, do the new zoneinfo files require the new glibc
> to work properly?

I don't believe so.  In future releases, tzdata was separate from glibc so 
that one didn't have to do a glibc update to get new zone info, which seems 
to change on a month to month basis (looking at the world view).

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