On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:25:08PM -0500, Robert Beranek wrote: > could you please tell me exactly which packages did you install, > beacuse when i want to install libc6_2.1.2-11.deb it says that i > should update timezone package which i cannot find. Greetings,
this is gonna be a looong posting. ;-> BTW: You definately should get in touch with the debian-devel ML and ask there how the libc-upgrade is organized. This part of the system is subject to constant change and I do not know much about the work being done there, since I am no longer subscribed to debian-devel. First about debian dependencies: if I remember right, I ran apt-get over the libc-upgraded system to fix broken dependencies. I am not sure, but maybe I used a dpkg --force option to drop unstable libc and libc-dev. If it comes down to that I would try to compile glibc 2.1 with =unchanged= (!) slink libs first and observe the results! Anything else comes down to severe system-bashing, as I will explain below. However - yes, I had some trouble with timezones later, especially "date" complained about the timezone not beeing set. You will probably have to use the tools in package base/timezone namely "tzselect", "tzconfig" and "zic". Other means of fixing the problem: If this leads to no success, here is how I do it on my system. This of course is not covered by debian policy since I use self compiled tools from non-debian packages (tarball releases)! Since I manage my environment over a couple of scripts executed at login time, it was rather easy to set the environment variable "TZ" as proposed by the "hwclock" manpage. The TZ env-var takes care of most user space programs to tell them the proper timezone. But you also have to run "hwclock --hctosys" at to inform the kernel of this timezone setting (hope I did get that right). Some filesystem drivers depend on the correct value being stored in the kernel. Further information: Have a look at the following manpages to get more systematical information about timezones: "hwclock", "tzconfig", "tzselect", "zic" Greetings, Tilman. __ this part of the mail is still under construction
