[CentOS] Re: tzdata - extra info.

[Les Mikesell]

Steve Campbell wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> This was mostly a question about why yum provided a tzdata that was 
>>> for a 2006a rpm instead of the 2006g or later when I did the yum.
>>>
>>> Thanks
> 
> Still replying without digest turned off---
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> The yum update provided the 2006a-1 version of the tzdata file, and this 
> apparently doesn't have the updates for the EST5EDT and America/New_York 
> zoneinfo files. This occurred even after updating from Tao to CentOS.
> 
> So, where is this fasttrack stuff, as I don't see it anywhere in my conf 
> files. I also don't seem to be able to enable anything in the yum conf.d 
> directory. These machines were almost all updated from Tao.
> 
> Really sorry for the noise here. But thanks for the help provided.

First, I'd try to figure out why you don't have the 2006a-2.EL3.1 
version that you see here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.8/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
Normal yum updates should have given you that version and it has the 
right thing for the US zones.

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   Les Mikesell
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