From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 29 20:52:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E52916A994 for ; Mon, 29 May 2006 20:52:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679F543D6A for ; Mon, 29 May 2006 20:52:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k4TKqeRl002735; Mon, 29 May 2006 15:52:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 15:52:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Stephen Hurd Message-ID: <20060529205240.GC6982@dan.emsphone.com> References: <004101c6810c$edeeaaf0$5200a8c0@backoffice> <447A8B42.2060901@sasktel.net> <20060529183801.GB6982@dan.emsphone.com> <000c01c68353$f95f89b0$5200a8c0@backoffice> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000c01c68353$f95f89b0$5200a8c0@backoffice> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Custom termcap entries and installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 20:52:49 -0000 In the last episode (May 29), Stephen Hurd said: > >In the last episode (May 28), Stephen Hurd said: > >>Stephen Hurd wrote: > >>>So, I suppose my questions are these: > >>>1) How do people cope with custom termcap entries? > >>>2) Is there a *correct* way to cope with custom termcap entries? > >>>3) Is there a good reason to not have /usr/share/misc/termcap be a > >>>symlink to /etc/termcap rather than the reverse which would allow > >>>mergemaster to Just Work? that is... putting it in /etc fixes a > >>>problem... does moving it create one or more more serious problems? > >>>4) Am I supposed to submit every custom termcap tweak for inclusion in > >>>the next release so I can keep using my terminals? > >>Anyone? > > > >What's wrong with just putting your custom termcap entry in > >/usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src so it gets installed during > >installworld? > > The only issue with doing that is that then I have to manually merge > changes or stop using CVSup to update the sources as well as figure > out how to exclude a specific file from exact mode in CVSup... or > possibly I would need to switch to AnonCVS and pay closer attention > to what gets updated. > > This does present the possibility of a permanent solution (which is > good) but seems like a fiendishly large amount of work for what seems > to me like a simple task especially considering that this > configuration file has been around since the late 70s. I cvsup the raw CVS repository, then check out a source tree with cvs which I build against. That lets me modify the source however I want, and the changes persist across "cvs update" runs. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com