Topic: Zoneinfo file for Australia during Commonwealth Games

[dpmiller]

I haven't seen any discussion here so I think we've all missed this

The end of Daylight Savings Time in Australia has been extended by a week for the Commonwealth Games.

Has anyone generated new Zoneinfo files for this yet? It is getting close to March 26 when DST normally ends.

[JonB]

It will be right in Queensland though  

[CharlieBrady]

Has anyone generated new Zoneinfo files for this yet?

You should check the changelog of the packages in 6.x and 7.0. If they do not include this change, then you should raise in the Fedora Legacy and RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 bug trackers.

[dpmiller]

Hmm, I have discovered that the location of these isn't obvious. They are in forums and on devinfo, but I didn't find a place where they are all gathered on the site. Something for hte Docteam.

I did just search for tzdata on contribs.org and in my devinfo archive and didn't find anything relevant, so I suspect 6.0 is a problem. I'm only a couple of updates behind on my 6.0 server, but I might have missed it. Anyway - I rasied a bug with details of a fix.

[CharlieBrady]

Hmm, I have discovered that the location of these isn't obvious.

What "these" are you referring to?

 I did just search for tzdata on contribs.org and in my devinfo archive and didn't find anything relevant, so I suspect 6.0 is a problem.

There isn't a tzdata package in 6.0. The zoneinfo files are in glibc-common.

Have you raised a FedoraLegacy bug? If not, I suggest you do so ASAP.

[dpmiller]

There is a bug there for RH 7.3 that is ALMOST through QA I think

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173091

I'll stick this in bugzilla.

RE what I couldn't find - I couldn't find an easy source for release notes, although I noticed them later in the FTP download readme. Still would be good to have the release notes easy to find associated with the download info before you go to the mirror,

[CharlieBrady]

There is a bug there for RH 7.3 that is ALMOST through QA I think

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173091

I'll stick this in bugzilla.

And please download the packages and see if they solve your problem.

RE what I couldn't find - I couldn't find an easy source for release notes, although I noticed them later in the FTP download readme. Still would be good to have the release notes easy to find associated with the download info before you go to the mirror,

I don't know what release notes you want. Every rpm has a changelog included which you can access via the rpm command:

rpm -q --changelog glibc-common | less

If you think there's additional documentation needed, then perhaps you could volunteer to help put that documentation together.

[dpmiller]

I can, but I have to move my test machine back from 7 to 6.0 and I have a something on it I need to finish first.

I've just updated the zoneinfo files which is much easier than updating glibc.... I can see why tzdata is in it own package now!

[dpmiller]

Tested ok. See bug 980 for 6.X for full details.