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-rw-r--r--perl-install/NEWS1
-rw-r--r--perl-install/timezone.pm4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/NEWS b/perl-install/NEWS
index 9b39624b6..bafa1b15a 100644
--- a/perl-install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+- drakclock: Ensure that /etc/localtime is a symlink (mga#14888)
- users: Make sure to restart accounts-daemon after adding users (mga#15113, mga#14476)
- i18n: Write the desired console font to /etc/vconsole.conf
- i18n: Use the x-distro /etc/locale.conf file instead of /etc/sysconfig/i18n
diff --git a/perl-install/timezone.pm b/perl-install/timezone.pm
index 98a33c368..ec252c603 100644
--- a/perl-install/timezone.pm
+++ b/perl-install/timezone.pm
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ sub write {
set_ntp_server($t->{ntp});
my $tz_prefix = get_timezone_prefix();
- unlink "$::prefix/etc/localtime" or log::l("unlinking $! failed");
- symlink ($tz_prefix . '/' . $t->{timezone}, "$::prefix/etc/localtime") or log::l("linking /etc/localtime failed");
+ eval { symlinkf($tz_prefix . '/' . $t->{timezone}, "$::prefix/etc/localtime") };
+ $@ and log::l("installing /etc/localtime failed");
setVarsInSh("$::prefix/etc/sysconfig/clock", {
ZONE => $t->{timezone},
UTC => bool2text($t->{UTC}),