From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 16:50:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29631065674 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267368FC13 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:50:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl21-99.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.148.99]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id m89GdNkq021085 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:39:29 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m89GdMEh003412; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:39:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m89GdLHf003411; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:39:21 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Richard Coleman References: <20080906.224018.-1303464793.imp@bsdimp.com> <1f27304c0809062222m724603dat2fb1af63dba5faa6@mail.gmail.com> <20080906.235633.-267228782.imp@bsdimp.com> <48C56E41.40002@criticalmagic.com> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:39:21 +0300 In-Reply-To: <48C56E41.40002@criticalmagic.com> (Richard Coleman's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:26:09 -0400") Message-ID: <87ej3tnuiu.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m89GdNkq021085 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.29, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.11, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pax in /rescue X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:50:18 -0000 On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:26:09 -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: >> : BTW, could editors/e3 be include into /rescue? >> : I think it's ineed to have a text editor to edit some file for rescue. >> : Because vi(1) lives in /usr/bin. >> >> /rescue already has nvi. > > But this is only partially useful until the root partition/termcap issue > is finally fixed. > > It comes up on the list about every 6 months, and everyone says "yeah, > we should move the termcap file". And that's where it sits until the > topic comes up again in another 6 months :-) I'm working on it. The ideas from the last discussion about allowing a minimal termcap in the root filesystem, and modifying ncurses to look for that as a fallback are nice... See the thread in freebsd-current that includes the posts: !A 2008-08-05 [ 28: Alex Kozlov ] Re: termcap under single luser ! 2008-08-06 [ 32: Alex Kozlov ] Re: termcap under single luser