On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> wrote:

Hi,

Currently it seems timezone in general has a problem related to backward zone
names and entries in zone.tab. Every time the name of a zone changes, its
entry is replaced in zone.tab file and added to backward file as a Link,
until now no problem, but after you install timezone how you can get the
zone.tab entry when using the old zone name? Is there a way to do this, or
shouldn't both the new and old zone name stay in zone.tab?

For now I made this set of commands to add back zone names to zone.tab based
on backward file:

chmod +w zone.tab
echo -e "\n# zone info for backward zone names" >> zone.tab
cat backward | grep Link | while read link curr old; do
if [ -z "$curr" -o -z "$old" ]; then
echo "Error processing backward entry for zone.tab"
exit 1
fi
cat zone.tab | grep -v '^#' | grep "$curr" | \
while read l; do
if [ "`echo \"$l\" | awk 'BEGIN { FS = \"[\t]\" } \
{ print $3 }'`" = "$curr" ]; then
echo "$l" | sed "s|$curr|$old|" >> zone.tab \
|| echo ERROR >> zone.tab
else
echo ERROR >> zone.tab
fi
done
done
if grep -q "^ERROR" zone.tab; then
echo "Error adding backward entries to zone.tab"
exit 1
fi

Without old zone names in zone.tab, problems like this can happen when
applications still use old zone names:
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40184

Other solution would be to just install backward file in the system to allow
applications to know the zone that changed names and use the new name.

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Herton