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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2002 05:20:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/33906: tic program is missing from the base FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <200201161320.g0GDK2195602@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/33906; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Alexey V. Neyman" <alex.neyman@auriga.ru>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/33906: tic program is missing from the base FreeBSD installation
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:16:23 +0200

 On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:04:56PM +0300, Alexey V. Neyman wrote:
 > On 16 January 2002 15:37, you wrote:
 > >> Considering all above, I dare suggest inclusion of 
 > >> /usr/share/misc/terminfo in BSD.usr.mtree :) At least our 
 > >> base-system libncurses uses this directory.
 > > 
 > > I'm not sure about this one.  Nothing in standard distribution seems
 > > to use this directory, except compiling its name into libncurses.
 > > An alternate solution would be to define TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS
 > > in src/lib/libncurses/ncurses_cfg.h to point to /usr/local, but
 > > that would be bogus too.  I think that the good compromise would
 > > be to leave it out of BSD.usr.dist scope -- as you say, tic(8)
 > > will create it if necessary.
 > 
 > I agree. The only thing that worries me is that people relying on 
 > mtree(8) to check integrity of /usr will be annoyed with complaints 
 > about unknown share/misc/terminfo entry. Worth a pkg-message? Or leave 
 > this concerns alone?
 > 
 As I already told you, I'm not sure about this one.  Let others
 speak on.  But definitely it should not be in BSD.usr.dist.
 
 > > By target directory first (bin, sbin), then by name within directory,
 > > then links.  The same order as in Makefile.  And nope, your /sbin
 > > entries were not alphabetically sorted.
 > 
 > Neither are yours :-) Corrected shar archive attached.
 > Also incorporated Ted's enhancements to pkg-descr.
 > 
 Looks like a winner to me.  I also think that pkg-descr should use
 FreeBSD manpage section numbers for tic(8), toe(8), and infocmp(8).
 
 
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