1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bb
index e6a0655afe..cc6206ac70 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bb
@@ -19,13 +19,17 @@ TZONES= "africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica southamerica  \
         "
 # pacificnew 
 
+# "slim" is the default since 2020b
+# "fat" is needed by e.g. MariaDB's mysql_tzinfo_to_sql
+ZIC_FMT ?= "slim"
+
 do_compile () {
         for zone in ${TZONES}; do \
-            ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/zic -d ${WORKDIR}${datadir}/zoneinfo -L /dev/null \
+            ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/zic -b ${ZIC_FMT} -d ${WORKDIR}${datadir}/zoneinfo -L /dev/null \
                 ${S}/${zone} ; \
-            ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/zic -d ${WORKDIR}${datadir}/zoneinfo/posix -L /dev/null \
+            ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/zic -b ${ZIC_FMT} -d ${WORKDIR}${datadir}/zoneinfo/posix -L /dev/null \
                 ${S}/${zone} ; \
-            ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/zic -d ${WORKDIR}${datadir}/zoneinfo/right -L ${S}/leapseconds \
+            ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/zic -b ${ZIC_FMT} -d ${WORKDIR}${datadir}/zoneinfo/right -L ${S}/leapseconds \
                 ${S}/${zone} ; \
         done
 }