Subject: Re: Installer proposal (timezones)...(My waste of Bandwidt
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From: None <RYAN_ORDWAY@Non-HP-Vancouver-om1.om.hp.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/15/1998 12:15:06
I think the thing is more the TIME it takes to install that 83K+ of
data. I have noticed that on my machines I have installed NetBSD on
(IIci, IIcx, Q630 and PB540c), one of the most time consuming parts of
the install was installing the timezone files ;-) It's not the size,
it's the fact that each is a seperate file (hard link or not) and
takes a certain amount of time to install. I think an 83K file would
be quicker to install than however many hundred different time zone
files totalling ~83K.
That's just probably the way that the installer extracts and writes
the files... and one reason why a native NetBSD install is so much
quicker.
Sure, it's picky, but if it's really that important to people I'm sure
there would be a way to consolidate all of the data from the various
timezone files into a single timezone file... which would be alot
quicker to install ;-)
Ryan
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Subject: Re: Installer proposal (timezones)...(My waste of Bandwidt
Author: Non-HP-kenn (kenn@echna.or.jp) at HP-Vancouver,mimegw1
Date: 4/15/98 9:29 AM
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:42:57 +0100,
Greg Evans <mr_krak@televar.com> wrote:
> On 4/15/98 4:21 AM, havenerk was rumored to have said:
> >I, too, thought all the timezone info was a little bit drawn out at
> >install.
[...]
>
> Regarding all this timezone stuff, call me crazy, call me stupid, but
> what is the big deal with time?
Nothing. Deleting *all* zoneinfo files from the base set would save
only 83K+ out of 9M.
> why don't we just make it so everyone has to learn GMT and then make it
> so that the GMT can be adjusted in 1 minute intervals? <g>
Hm, it doesn't sound so crazy to me. Installer could ask the user for
her timezone specs (offset from UTC, whether or not to use DST, etc.),
then generate an appropriate /etc/localtime file on the fly, if it's
so important to save less than 1% of the base set.
Ken