Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:39:22 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: bin/97407: /usr/share/misc/termcap overwritten by installworld Message-ID: <20070418193922.GA42567@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4625AC4B.5040005@sasktel.net> References: <200704162111.l3GLB6Eq096927@freefall.freebsd.org> <4625AC4B.5040005@sasktel.net>
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:27:39PM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > > >This is by design; to make your termcap changes permanent, > >please edit src/share/termcap/termcap.src. For example, > >I have the following diff locally: > > > > I understand that it's by design, it just seems like rather poor design. > > Is there a rationale for not having it as a text file in /etc (and > handled by mergemaster(8)) that's not obvious? Use ~/.termcap or $TERMPATH or $TERMCAP if you want to use a custom location. Kris
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