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Document tzdata dependency #4567
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@bdarnell, is this sufficient, or do we need to explicitly call this out in the install pages and/or the deployment tutorials? |
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Since the tzdata package is usually installed by default (and is nearly always present on development machines), it's probably fine to only mention it here. But technically it's an install-time requirement at the same level as glibc and libncurses.
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Certain features of CockroachDB require the [`tzdata`](https://www.iana.org/time-zones) package (sometimes called `tz` or `zoneinfo`), for example, to support using place names as time zone identifiers. Therefore, ensure that this package is installed and kept up-to-date on all VMs where CockroachDB nodes are running. |
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"machines", not VMs - we don't know or care whether they're virtualized.
This does not apply to docker-based deployments. The tzdata package is included in the docker image and is update with each patch release of cockroachdb.
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Done. I'll work on one more commit adding the tzdata
error to the common errors page.
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@bdarnell, PTAL again. I'm not sure why the build is failing. The anchors it's complaining about are perfectly fine. |
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Fixes #4433.