[systemd-devel] [EXT] Re: Using timedatectl on a readonly rootfile system using mender

[juice]

Shravan Singh kirjoitti 2020-09-08 16:31:
> No one is answering a simple question. Why we have to guard timezone
> so much?.
> 
> Why can't I change it? What happens if I change it on a read-only
> rootfs? I am breaking the whole systemd by doing this?
> 
> In fact most of the people in this group are suggesting a work-around
> to me
> 
>  "I wonder: If you have a working pull request, why don't you use that
> code and be happy with it? That's how free software works.
> Still everybody interested can apply you patch."
> 
> Yes, it works. My question is why is not getting included so that
> everyone can benefit from it. That is how a free software community
> should work.

It's a general doubt about usefulness. I don't think your need is so
general that many people would benefit from it and it breaks conventions
that have been used for quite long time.

> In this day and age of mobile computing it is really shocking to see.
> That timezone is not regarded as something that can be dynamically
> changed.

No, that is not the problem here. TZ is freely changeable and always
has been, your problem is the read-only /etc.

You should take this up with mender and not systemd; fix it where it is
broken and don't try to patch it somewhere else.

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