Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Time warnings.

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 07/10/2003 01:34:51 PM Bruce Smith wrote:
>After making a new ISO image, and booting immediately in VMware, I get a
>ton of warnings from tar that files are dated in the future.
>
>I have my timezone set correctly on my local machine, AND in my LFS, AND
>in the DL config.  (and all have the same time set on the PC, since they
>are all running on the same PC :)
>
>I'm _guessing_ this is because the DL boot process sets the timezone
>AFTER it untars everything.
>
>Would it be a good idea to set the timezone sooner during the boot?
>
>It's no big deal, but would make it easier to watch for error messages
>during the boot if there weren't tons of warnings about future dated
>files.
>
>It would be hard to set the timezone correctly before untar'ing /etc and
>finding out what the timezone should be set to.  Maybe we should set it
>to the largest value available at the start of the boot script, and let
>the normal boot process continue to set the time zone correctly, exactly
>in the same place where it sets timezone now?

I think that's a good idea, give it a shot.

Heiko