[phobos] FreeBSD test machine

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, September 25, 2011 23:14:37 Brad Roberts wrote:
> The freebsd/32 box is running 8.1-RELEASE.  The /usr/share/zoneinfo has
> a predictable set of files in it all dated Jul 19, 2010.  The
> FreeBSD/64 box is 8.2 and the files are dated Feb 16, 2011.  Define
> "not up to date".
> 
> I can create you an account on either or both if you want.

Well, Chile has been messing around with their DST on a yearly basis for the 
last two or three years, and it appears that whenever the files were updated 
for this year's DST switches, it was too recent for either version 8.1-RELEASE 
of FreeBSD or version 8.2 of FreeBSD, given that std.datetime's tests are 
failing for America/Santiago on both when testing the DST switches of this 
year. So, either the time zone packages on those machine need to be updated 
(which may or may not be reasonable - I've never used any of the BSDs, so I 
don't know), or I'm going to have to figure out how to redo the tests so that 
they work with the time zone files which are on those machines (which may or 
may not be easy, given that the main problem with picking valid DST tests is 
that Windows has the DST switches wrong something like 90% of the time).

So, ideally, the time zone files on those boxes would be updated, but if that's 
not reasonable, I'm going to have to figure out how to rework the DST unit 
tests.

- Jonathan M Davis