<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM Hal Murray via devel <<a href="mailto:devel@ntpsec.org">devel@ntpsec.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
<a href="mailto:fallenpegasus@gmail.com">fallenpegasus@gmail.com</a> said:<br>
> The distros have gotten used to pushing tzdata every 6 months.<br>
> If we could get the leapsecond data into that package, it would be ideal. <br>
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It's already in the package they send to IANA and on the IANA servers.<br>
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The tzdata-base is updated more often than every 6 months. They are up to "g" <br>
so far this year. But they come in clusters rather than a uniform <br>
distribution. Examples are at the bottom of:<br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/" rel="noreferrer">ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/</a><br>
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Latest version is here:<br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/leap-seconds.list" rel="noreferrer">ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/leap-seconds.list</a><br>
I can't find a https URL to just that file. There are URLs for the whole <br>
tarball.<br>
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The catch is they don't update it automatically. Somebody has to tell them to <br>
fetch a new version. No big deal, just an email. I'm pretty sure we could <br>
get them to do a leap-seconds only release if they didn't have any other <br>
changes to push out.<br>
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If we wanted to be helpful, we could write a script that does whatever and <br>
sends them a merge request.<br>
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The other problem is to get distros to distribute the leap-seconds file. I <br>
poked Fedora, they did it, but got the wrong format. (I didn't even know <br>
there was another format.) Time to poke them again.<br>
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These are my opinions. I hate spam.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Ubuntu ( or clan Debian) seems to be the exception to the rule afaict.</div><div>Slackware and NetBSD package the non-usable derivative and most</div><div>other distros seem to not include it at all.</div><div><br></div><div>I could try posting an ebuild patch to Gentoo, and look at a PKGBUILD</div><div>patch for Arch.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/eggert/tz/">https://github.com/eggert/tz/</a> seems to be the repository for the tz data</div><div> build files with the leap-seconds.list file convieniently in the root directory.</div><div><br></div><div>I might pencil in on my (lack of a) calender to check for a bulletin C</div><div> in January and July.<br></div></div></div></div>