[CentOS] Re: tzdata - extra info.

Thu Feb 8 16:44:28 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Steve Campbell wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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---
>
>
> 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.

In CentOS3, there's no yum.repos.d, there's just /etc/yum.conf ... edit 
this per the notes on 
http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3/fasttrack/Readme.txt