Bug 1611117

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this.

I'm concerned about why iso3166.tab is missing.  This file should always be installed with tzdata.  Can you provide more information about how your docker was set-up?  Can you provide instructions for a reproducer?

Also the version of tzdata currently installed on your host.

Thanks,
Patsy

The rhel-atomic / rhel-minimal container image is a very minimal RHEL 7 base image built and shipped by Red Hat.  A better description of the image can be found in the Container Catalog here:

  https://access.redhat.com/containers/?tab=overview#/registry.access.redhat.com/rhel-atomic


The tzdata package is installed because it's a dependency of glibc-common, etc., but it appears that Engineering has deleted all of the files that it actually provides:

# docker run --rm -ti registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7-atomic bash
bash-4.2# rpm -Vv tzdata
.........    /usr/share/doc/tzdata-2018e (not installed)
.........  d /usr/share/doc/tzdata-2018e/README (not installed)
.........  d /usr/share/doc/tzdata-2018e/theory.html (not installed)
.........  d /usr/share/doc/tzdata-2018e/tz-art.html (not installed)
.........  d /usr/share/doc/tzdata-2018e/tz-link.html (not installed)
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Abidjan
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Accra
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Addis_Ababa
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Algiers
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Asmara
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Asmera
[... trimmed for length ...]
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab
[... trimmed for length ...]
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab
missing     /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone1970.tab


This was very likely done to cut down on the size of the image, as they want it to be as small as possible.  All doc files are not installed by default as well.  

I think the expected solution here is to pass in /etc/localtime to the container:

# date
Thu Aug  2 23:22:18 EDT 2018

# docker run --rm -ti registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7-atomic date
Fri Aug  3 03:22:36 UTC 2018

# docker run --rm -ti -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro rhel7-atomic date
Thu Aug  2 23:22:49 EDT 2018


I think this should accomplish the goal of setting local time, as long as you're not trying to use java (see bug 1399749)

(In reply to Derrick Ornelas from comment #3)
> I think the expected solution here is to pass in /etc/localtime to the
> container:
> 
> # date
> Thu Aug  2 23:22:18 EDT 2018
> 
> # docker run --rm -ti registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7-atomic date
> Fri Aug  3 03:22:36 UTC 2018
> 
> # docker run --rm -ti -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro rhel7-atomic date
> Thu Aug  2 23:22:49 EDT 2018
> 
> 
> I think this should accomplish the goal of setting local time, as long as
> you're not trying to use java (see bug 1399749)

If that's the case then the bug is that '/usr/bin/tzselect' wasn't also removed, because it can't possibly operate in such a trimmed down environment.

I'd retitle and assign to rhel atomic team to remove tzselect to further make the installation smaller.

Yes, tzdata was intentionally removed as Derrick explained. Thanks for the hint to remove tzselect as well.

There are more problems lurking in the atomic image, caused by brute removal. The best work-around is to use the regular full-size rhel image.

Somebody may still need tzselect and bind-mount data from the host. Let us remove it and see.

Sorry for removing the needinfo flag.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3697

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 500 days