debian zoneinfo link fix

Attila Lendvai attila at lendvai.name
Sat Oct 31 22:27:46 UTC 2015


hi,


> Unfortunately, on Debian 7 at least, /usr/share/zoneinfo/ contains a symlink “localtime” which points back to /etc/localtime.
>
> This causes reread-timezone-repository to fail (it calls subseq with an invalid index).
>
> The following patch is a simple fix; it simply ignores files outside of the root.


thanks for the patch!

have you considered simply adding :follow-symlinks nil to the
cl-fad:walk-directory call? that seems to me like a more
straightforward fix.

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