Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:42:51 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/80256: /rescue/vi doesn't work without terminal database in /usr Message-ID: <p06210211bed9fe36bf2d@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050618125705.GA721@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20050617211950.GA41720@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <p06210210bed954d40be5@[128.113.24.47]> <20050618125705.GA721@uk.tiscali.com>
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At 1:57 PM +0100 6/18/05, Brian Candler wrote: >[from freebsd-current] >On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 12:48:04AM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: >> >Yes, I'm aware of PR bin/80256, but that appears to stalled in >> >a state of limbo. >> >> I've also been meaning to do something about that idea of a small >> termcap file. I don't remember what the PR says, but someone had a >> good idea of generating the minimal termcap file from the standard >> one, and putting that in /rescue. I have a few ideas of my own so >> the system would automatically pick up that minimal file. Just a >> matter of finding the time to test it all... :-) > >I started that PR. Subsequently there was a short discussion off-list >where it turned out that Warner Losh had a compact termcap file >which could be committed - it's attached below. However nothing >further happened. I am aware of Warner's termcap file, and I had talked with him earlier this year about committing something along those lines. I forget if I was going to commit his exact termcap file, or some auto-generated alternative, but I do have the emails around here somewhere. I know that *at the time* I knew what I had planned to do, and that Warner had nodded in general agreement to whatever that was... Right now I am busy finishing off some changes to `env', which will fix some problems introduced by a different change that I made earlier this year. Once I have those changes sorted out, I'll go back and look at my emails on this termcap idea. (Unless, of course, anyone else wants to do it before I get to it!) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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