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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: bin/97407: /usr/share/misc/termcap overwritten by installworld
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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