[systemd-devel] [PATCH] timedated: add --timezone option to set the default timezone

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 25.03.14 11:54, juho son (juho80.son at samsung.com) wrote:

> 
> On 03/25/2014 04:47 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Tue, 18.03.14 02:34, Juho Son (juho80.son at samsung.com) wrote:
> >
> >>This option could changes the default system's time zone.
> >>The default time zone is /etc/localtime. If we want to use
> >>the specific path, we could use this option.
> >I agree with the others on this thread, this really looks like nothing
> >we should support upstream. /etc is the place for configuration. If you
> >decide to mount it read-only (which is absolutely valid), then
> >configuration is ready-only, and that's the exactly the effect that
> >mounting /etc read-only should have, so playing games with redirecting
> >this sounds misleading.
> >
> >Lennart
> >
> Yeah if we decide to use the /etc to read-only, we should use like that.
> but we could modify some configurations
> like group, passwd, smack, mtab and localtime in runtime.
> So we use links for that in read-only.
> You already knew the systemd's configurations are in /etc/systemd.
> It is very valid that /etc is read-only for protecting it.
> So system configuration with link and read-only could give satisfaction for
> protecting and supporting legacy module needed modification in runtime.
> So I want to say I think that (link with read-only) is useful.
> so put the "/etc with link and read-only" conversation beside.
> 
> I want use the timedated in my system.
> timedated only use "/etc/localtime" for system' timezone.
> So I should modify timedated source code for my system.
> That's why I suggest the option to configure.
> Someone to use like me need that option or configuration.
> Some system use TZ environment variable for specifying.
> and if the TZ does not have value,
> default timezone is /etc/localtime or /usr/local/etc/localtime.
> In GNU C library, that depends on configuration in installation.
> First time, I considered the build configuration like
> "--with-timezone-path=".
> but I think the option submitted is better after I see the rootdir
> option in other.
> So please consider it with flexible perspective for alternative system.

I am not convinced this is something we should support upstream (this
shouldn't stop you from changing this downstream though...). But I think
there's no point in introducing multiple levels of /etc and advocating
this from upstream...

Sorry,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat