Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 04:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/33906: tic program is missing from the base FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <200201161240.g0GCe3M83453@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/33906; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Alexey V. Neyman" <alex.neyman@auriga.ru>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/33906: tic program is missing from the base FreeBSD installation
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:37:33 +0200
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:17:44PM +0300, Alexey V. Neyman wrote:
> On 16 January 2002 14:00, you wrote:
> > The following problems were fixed:
>
> Thank you, I'll try to remember it next time. It's my first attempt at
> making a port.
>
> > Fixed --datadir to match the actual location of terminfo database.
> > (See configure output before and after.)
>
> I intentionally specified /usr/share/misc to get terminfo files in
> /usr/share/misc/terminfo. terminfo(5) references it as a home for
> compiled terminfo entries and it is how our base libncurses is
> configured; this is used only to substitute placeholders in manpages
> (tic(8) working with 'default' terminfo location (without -o option)
> works with /usr/share/misc). There's no need to override datadir to
> place it in ${PREFIX}/share/terminfo - it's default location for it.
> I just forgot to remove @dirrm of the ${PREFIX}/share/terminfo.
>
I was confused by this.
> Try running tic(8) without -o and see its output in
> /usr/share/misc/terminfo. We cannot change it in the port as the port
> makes use of base-system library and such default location is in its
> config.
>
Correct.
> And, there's no need to make the terminfo directory at all - tic(8)
> does it itself if it is run with high enough privileges. As there's no
> need to remove it on uninstall - we haven't installed anything
> there, all its contents are put there by user.
>
Good.
> Considering all above, I dare suggest inclusion of
> /usr/share/misc/terminfo in BSD.usr.mtree :) At least our base-system
> libncurses uses this directory.
>
I'm not sure about this one. Nothing in standard distribution seems
to use this directory, except compiling its name into libncurses.
An alternate solution would be to define TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS
in src/lib/libncurses/ncurses_cfg.h to point to /usr/local, but
that would be bogus too. I think that the good compromise would
be to leave it out of BSD.usr.dist scope -- as you say, tic(8)
will create it if necessary.
> By the way, what is the principle of ordering items in pkg-plist? I
> used alphabetical, but you changed it...
>
By target directory first (bin, sbin), then by name within directory,
then links. The same order as in Makefile. And nope, your /sbin
entries were not alphabetically sorted.
Cheers,
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