2007 DST update for RH7.2

[Matt Temple]

What I found was that the newest tzdata rpms did NO writing to anything
expect /usr/share/zoneinfo,
so I installed them via RPM with --nodeps and --force.
Then I fixed the link at /etc/locatime to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York.
It seems to be working on 7.3 and 9.0.   I can't speak for 7.2.
Has anyone found different?

                                                          Matt Temple

Adam Gibson wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> 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).
>>   
> Couldn't you just take a correctly setup and updated 7.3 system's
> /etc/localtime file and copy it to the 7.2's etc directory?  I wonder
> if there are any formating changes of the localtime file that would
> cause problems between glibc versions.  I would think that format is
> set in stone by now.
>
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