zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11

[DAve]

Dan Busarow wrote:
> 
> On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, 
>>> all but
>>> one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4.
>>>
>>> When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this:
>>>
>>> voyager ROOT /usr/gpeel/zoneinfo > make
>>> zoneinfo-: You need to define PORTNAME and PORTVERSION instead of 
>>> PKGNAME.
>>> (This port is too old for your bsd.port.mk, please update it to match
>>>  your bsd.port.mk.)
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop.
>>>
>>> I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file itself, 
>>> but
>>> have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could 
>>> simplify, I
>>> would appreciate it.
>>>
> 
> Grant,
> 
> Search for an email I sent to the list on 2/22 with Subject
> 
>  Determining daylight savings changes on BSD
> 
> It has the steps needed to update manually from source.
> 
> Here's the steps
> 
> If you can't use the ports to update your time zone files here is the 
> manual procedure.
> 
> 1. create a new directory and cd into it
>    e.g. # mkdir myzoneinfo; cd myzoneinfo
> 
> 2. # fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007b.tar.gz
> 
> 3. # tar -zxvf tzdata2007b.tar.gz
> 
> 4. you will now have a bunch of files in the directory extracted from 
> tzdata2007b.
>    you need to edit zone.tab and comment out these lines
> 
> #AX     +6006+01957     Europe/Mariehamn
> #GG     +4927-00232     Europe/Guernsey
> #IM     +5409-00428     Europe/Isle_of_Man
> #JE     +4912-00207     Europe/Jersey
> #ME     +4226+01916     Europe/Podgorica
> #RS     +4450+02030     Europe/Belgrade
> #TL     -0833+12535     Asia/Dili
> 
> 5. run this command
>    # zic -d ./zoneinfo -p America/Los_Angeles -m 0644 -y ./yearistype \
>        africa antarctica asia australasia etcetera europe \
>        factory northamerica southamerica systemv
> 
>    that's all one long line
>    the zic command will create a new directory named zoneinfo and
>    fill it with the new zoneinfo files.  You can compare it to
>    /usr/share/zoneinfo
> 
> 6. install the new files by running
>    # cp -R -p ./zoneinfo/ /usr/share/zoneinfo
>    # cp ./zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo
>    # tzsetup
> 
> 7. to verify that all went well run
>    # zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>    your should get
> 
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 
> PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 
> PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
> /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 
> PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
> /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 
> PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
> 
> 
> I've done this on 1/2 dozen older 4.x and 5.x servers and it works fine.

Just a heads up, that file is now tzdata2007c.tar.gz, created on Feb 
26th. At least I couldn't grab tzdata2007b.tar.gz anymore.

DAve


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