On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 17:11 +0000, Ian Burrell wrote: > Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> verizon.net> writes: > > > > Yes, but on this FC2 box, there is not to my knowledge, any mechanism > > for auto-updating the file. Can you elaborate on hwo this is done? > > > > Yum. The tzdata maintainer publishes a new version with the changed data files. > The tzdata archive contains textual description of the timezones which are > compiled into a binary format. The tools for dumping and compiling are not > include in Fedora Core. zdump and zic are included in the glibc-common package. > Red Hat then releases a new tzdata package and everyone > updates through yum. Red Hat don't release any updates for FC2 any more. It is End-of-Lifed. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
