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Re: Updated: terminfo-5.5_20060323-1


Thomas Wolff wrote:
I think and I'd like to suggest that the terminfo package should also update the file /etc/termcap in order to maintain consistent references to terminal capabilities. (The desired entries can easily be generated automatically with infocmp -Cr .)
/etc/termcap currently contains buggy entries that cause interworking problems. For a description, please see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=163715

All of that may be true. However, termcap doesn't belong to me, it is part of the termcap-20050421-1 package. If the owner of that package -- who is not me -- wants to replace it with a package that simply
(1) requires: terminfo ncurses libncurses8
(2) provides only
/usr/include/termcap.h
/usr/lib/libtermcap.a
/usr/share/man/man3/termcap.3
but not /etc/termcap
(3) has a postinstall script that does 'infocmp -Cr' to autogen a
termcap file from the terminfo database
That's up to him.


On the other hand, that's a lot of dependencies when he could just re-create /etc/termcap that way himself and ship it in place of the one shipped now. But in either case, that's his business, not mine.

I'm not going to touch it.

Another note: There is a dangling link
 /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo -> ../share/terminfo

Thanks for the report -- but /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo appears to be a leftover from some old version of the ncurses packages. Current ncurses and terminfo packages do not provide or create /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo.


terminfo's postinstall script does create /usr/lib/terminfo, but that's it.

Just rm the dangling link and you'll be fine.

--
Chuck


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