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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:27:39 -0700
From:      Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/97407: /usr/share/misc/termcap overwritten by installworld
Message-ID:  <4625AC4B.5040005@sasktel.net>
In-Reply-To: <200704162111.l3GLB6Eq096927@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200704162111.l3GLB6Eq096927@freefall.freebsd.org>

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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?

If not, perhaps suspended would be a better state than closed.




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