/etc/localtime should be a file

[Toomas Tamm]

Dear all,

In 2006, Debian decided after a long discussion that /etc/localtime
should be a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/${TIMEZONE} rather than a link
to it. For the history, please see 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346342

In summary, the reason is that timezone info needs to be available (eg
for fsck) even before /usr is mounted.

In the examples script scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc , a symlink is still
being created:

[...]
echo $TIMEZONE    > $target/etc/timezone
ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/${TIMEZONE} $target/etc/localtime
[...]

Should FAI also follow the Debian policy and make a copy of the zoneinfo
file rather than linking to it? The change is trivial; just replace
"ln -fs" with "cp".

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