>It sounds like we need to divide this into two bugs. My problem has a
>lot more to do with the localtime/TZ situation.
As far as the localtime/TZ situation, why not just handle it during the install of the jdk/jre? Determine if /etc/localtime is a link or not and warn the user that they need to copy over whatever localtime is linked to if they have a separate mount for /usr, or set TZ somewhere...
>It sounds like we need to divide this into two bugs. My problem has a
>lot more to do with the localtime/TZ situation.
As far as the localtime/TZ situation, why not just handle it during the install of the jdk/jre? Determine if /etc/localtime is a link or not and warn the user that they need to copy over whatever localtime is linked to if they have a separate mount for /usr, or set TZ somewhere...