RFC: drop timezones from OE

RFC: drop timezones from OE

[Rolf Leggewie]

Hi,

it seems that there are two, conflicting packages in OE providing
timezone data: tzdata from glibc and timezones from opie/handhelds.

I think it would make sense to drop timezones and only have the timezone
data from glibc as this eliminates problems where one wants to install
package A that depends on tzdata but you also want package B where the
dependency is declared for timezones.  Currently, you can only install
either A or B.

If there is consensus on this, I would take care that OE metadata is
updated accordingly (drop timezones folder, replace occurences of
timezones in DEPENDS with tzdata, etc.)

Regards

Rolf

Re: RFC: drop timezones from OE

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Dec 14, 2007 6:08 AM, Rolf Leggewie <no2spam@nospam.arcornews.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it seems that there are two, conflicting packages in OE providing
> timezone data: tzdata from glibc and timezones from opie/handhelds.
>
> I think it would make sense to drop timezones and only have the timezone
> data from glibc as this eliminates problems where one wants to install
> package A that depends on tzdata but you also want package B where the
> dependency is declared for timezones.  Currently, you can only install
> either A or B.
>
> If there is consensus on this, I would take care that OE metadata is
> updated accordingly (drop timezones folder, replace occurences of
> timezones in DEPENDS with tzdata, etc.)
>
> Regards
>
> Rolf
>
> <http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel>
>
+1 from me. I have been using tzdata for almost a year now.


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Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)

Re: RFC: drop timezones from OE

[Matthias Hentges]

Am Freitag, den 14.12.2007, 15:08 +0100 schrieb Rolf Leggewie:
> Hi,
> 
> it seems that there are two, conflicting packages in OE providing
> timezone data: tzdata from glibc and timezones from opie/handhelds.
> 
> I think it would make sense to drop timezones and only have the timezone
> data from glibc as this eliminates problems where one wants to install
> package A that depends on tzdata but you also want package B where the
> dependency is declared for timezones.  Currently, you can only install
> either A or B.
> 
> If there is consensus on this, I would take care that OE metadata is
> updated accordingly (drop timezones folder, replace occurences of
> timezones in DEPENDS with tzdata, etc.)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rolf
> 
+1

It is an ancient Opie relict that should have died a long time ago.

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Re: RFC: drop timezones from OE

[Lorn Potter]

On Saturday 15 December 2007, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems that there are two, conflicting packages in OE providing
> timezone data: tzdata from glibc and timezones from opie/handhelds.
>
> I think it would make sense to drop timezones and only have the timezone
> data from glibc as this eliminates problems where one wants to install
> package A that depends on tzdata but you also want package B where the
> dependency is declared for timezones.  Currently, you can only install
> either A or B.
>
> If there is consensus on this, I would take care that OE metadata is
> updated accordingly (drop timezones folder, replace occurences of
> timezones in DEPENDS with tzdata, etc.)


The timezones from opie are at least 4 years old and out of date. You can 
safely discard this package/dependency.



-- 
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech

Re: RFC: drop timezones from OE

[Rolf Leggewie]

Lorn Potter schrieb:
> The timezones from opie are at least 4 years old and out of date. You can 
> safely discard this package/dependency.

OK, thanks for everybody's comments.  I have made and committed the
changes in 6430e9e1a0f6e1fc737ee4762668105d78aebda2.