FC4 timezone RPM problem

[jdow]

From: "Mike - EMAIL IGNORED" <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com>

>I am having a problem updating my timezone data.
> Here is an example.
> 
> # rpm -q tzdata
> tzdata-2005m-1.fc4
> # rpm -U --allfiles --force tzdata-2006g-1.fc4.src.rpm
> # rpm -q tzdata
> tzdata-2005m-1.fc4
> 
> And the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/
> are unchanged.

That one doesn't seem to work. At least it didn't for me.

I downloaded the tzdata-2007 SRPM for FC6. I tried to rpmbuild -bi it.
It would not install. However, a brief bit of learning later I looked
I copied its time zone information from:
/var/tmp/tzdata-root/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
and copied it to:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
Then I copied that to /etc/localtime

Bingo - updated.

YMMV  - particularly with regards to which file to copy.
{^_^}