[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#726256: timedated doesn't support split-usr, uses a symlink for /etc/localtime

[Michael Biebl]

Package: systemd
Version: 204-1
Severity: normal
File: /lib/systemd/systemd-timedated

Changing the timezone information via timedated
(org.freedesktop.timedate1 or timedatectl) will replace /etc/localtime
with a symlink to the timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo.

That means the file will be dangling symlink during early boot and the
time might be incorrectly set for systems with a separate /usr.

initramfs-tools currently doesn't mount /usr, so we should consider
(temporarily) replacing the symlink with a copy until [1] is fixed or
push harder to get the usr-mount support in initramfs-tools in.

Michael

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652459

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-43
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.2-2
ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.5
ii  libc6                2.17-93
ii  libcap2              1:2.22-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.1-1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.6.16-1
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-2
ii  libkmod2             15-0.1
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.3-9
ii  libselinux1          2.1.13-3
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   204-1
ii  libsystemd-journal0  204-1
ii  libudev1             204-1
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-24
ii  udev                 204-1
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.5

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  libpam-systemd  208-1

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  systemd-ui  2-2

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