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Bug 1722233

Summary:	tzdata: Consider splitting out UTC into a separate subpackage
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Component:	tzdata	Assignee:	Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	clems.verna, codonell, dridi.boukelmoune, fedoraproject, pbrobinson, pfrankli, skrenger, yaneti
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Description Patsy Griffin 2019-06-19 18:27:51 UTC

Description of problem:
Not-compressed tzdata takes a considerable amount of storage(du -hc -> 7.4M). Would it be possible to split it into two subpackages, UTC and the rest? Many container deployments would benefit from the ability to install just UTC.

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Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 16:50:18 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 19:09:56 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Comment 3 Patsy Griffin 2020-05-12 02:31:14 UTC

*** Bug 1733452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Carlos O'Donell 2021-02-17 14:33:35 UTC

I've been discussing this with Patsy and in general we discussed the following steps:

- Identify critical minimum tzdata install to boot a system in UTC time.
- Split up package such that we can have UTC-only containers.
- Default Fedora install should have all of tzdata.
- Default fedora-minimal containers should be able to get to just UTC tzdata installed e.g. tzdata-minimal.
- The glibc team needs to verify and fix glibc TZ fallout which always prints the setup TZ env var name and do something more intelligent.