[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone

[Andrea Adami]

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Richard Purdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't think dropping support for / and ${prefix} makes sense as long
>>> as it doesn't excessively hurt us
>> 
>> we already have, done special things to support it look how many
>> libraries appear in /lib now a days despite their original build
>> system wanting it in /usr and I still get atleast 50 warnings on it
>> wanting more in /lib and I am sure someone will send patches
>> for it because they hate the warning and then we will have this
>> growing pile of patches
>> to maintain. So IMO it has already started to hurt us.
> 
> just to quantify it. I have 11 warnings reported about it.
> 
> WARNING: QA Issue: .... installed in the base_prefix, requires a
> shared library under exec_prefix (/usr)
> 
> this is very custom image but very much similar to core-image-minimal
> now if I fix this 11 warnings. For the sake of it I fixed these 11 warnings
> by hacking patches for packages or recipes to move these files into
> base_prefix and it now gives me 16 more warnings about same but
> different files it wants to bring along into base_prefix
> 
> its quite slimy :/

As Khem says, leading distros are even going one step further:

http:\\fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove

Seems it's time to consider alternative rootfs layouts, like this F17 unified filesystem.

Andrea

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