Re: [PATCH] Add --disable-timezone configure option

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Wednesday 15 February 2012 10:49:01 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >> I'm not sure there's much benefit to actually having a package include
> >> copies of the data rather than having a --with- argument pointing to
> >> where the data files may be found.  By using --with, the package would
> >> only need updating pretty infrequently (and people generally want
> >> minimal latency when getting tzdata updates).
> > 
> > I hadn't thought of that.  It sounds fine too.
> 
> I also like the idea of a --with- argument because it helps us run the
> tests against the tzdata provided by the distro.
> 
> We should *also* IMO include legacy tzdata binaries in glibc to test
> compatibility with old formats, I am 100% for including old binary
> data (not in the source, but in a seperate checkout to avoid the pain
> of grep'ing through binary data e.g. --with-glibc-data).

the addons framework should make this painless and not even require a toplevel 
configure option shouldn't it ?

> Where are the distro's getting the tzdata from?

http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/
-mike

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