From d4be53b62716ec14020f5c29bd68fd9c0ab8d27e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Angelo Naselli <anaselli@linux.it>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 19:27:46 +0100
Subject: Create a symlink instead a hard copy to localtime see issue #14888

---
 perl-install/timezone.pm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'perl-install')

diff --git a/perl-install/timezone.pm b/perl-install/timezone.pm
index efd1abd9d..98a33c368 100644
--- a/perl-install/timezone.pm
+++ b/perl-install/timezone.pm
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ sub write {
     set_ntp_server($t->{ntp});
 
     my $tz_prefix = get_timezone_prefix();
-    eval { cp_af($tz_prefix . '/' . $t->{timezone}, "$::prefix/etc/localtime") };
-    $@ and log::l("installing /etc/localtime failed");
+    unlink "$::prefix/etc/localtime" or log::l("unlinking $! failed");
+    symlink ($tz_prefix . '/' . $t->{timezone}, "$::prefix/etc/localtime") or log::l("linking /etc/localtime failed");
     setVarsInSh("$::prefix/etc/sysconfig/clock", {
 	ZONE => $t->{timezone},
 	UTC  => bool2text($t->{UTC}),
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