Re: core-updates freeze

[Timothy Sample]

Hi,

Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure what we should do about it.  Thoughts?
>>
>> Kei: Does it work if you 'echo Your/Timezone > /etc/timezone' ?
>> Alternatively, you could make /etc/localtime a symbolic link to
>> $tzdata/share/zoneinfo/Your/Timezone, though that will not persist a
>> reboot.
>
> I can confirm that both of these methods work, so crude work-arounds
> include
>
>   1.  Setting the system's configured time zone in /etc/timezone

This is my vote for two reasons.  First, it seems more elegant.  If I
want to know the timezone name, I should look it up directly, and not
chase symlinks around looking for some canonical timezone file.  I think
this is the closest thing to a “standard way to get the name of the
system timezone” <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35746#9> (here,
“standard” means “well, I guess at least Gentoo does it”).  Second, it
is a one-liner for us:

>From ad931895edae97e2d6d77542fcbe8dc793f193f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timothy Sample <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:04:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] system: Write the timezone to /etc/timezone.

* gnu/system.scm (operating-system-etc-service): Write the operating
system timezone to /etc/timezone.

Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35746>.
---
 gnu/system.scm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
index 01be1243fe..75ac0632bb 100644
--- a/gnu/system.scm
+++ b/gnu/system.scm
@@ -716,6 +716,7 @@ fi\n")))
        ;; to certain networks.  Some discussion at
        ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00037.html
        ("hostname" ,(plain-file "hostname" (operating-system-host-name os)))
+       ("timezone" ,(plain-file "timezone" (operating-system-timezone os)))
        ("localtime" ,(file-append tzdata "/share/zoneinfo/"
                                   (operating-system-timezone os)))
        ("sudoers" ,(operating-system-sudoers-file os))))))
-- 
2.22.0

Thoughts?


-- Tim