Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:24:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240619000.3980@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz> In-Reply-To: <20120824121531.50f62e9a.steve@sohara.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240056270.1299@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz> <20120824080544.9bca4996.steve@sohara.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240308540.3282@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz> <20120824095533.7ff3bc23.steve@sohara.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240517090.3633@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz> <20120824114757.e4d37b9b.steve@sohara.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240551380.3841@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz> <20120824121531.50f62e9a.steve@sohara.org>
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:58:36 -0500 (CDT) > Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT) >>> Lars Eighner <lars@larseighner.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I grepped the entire /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf directory. There is no >>>> TEKEN_CONS25 or TEKEN or CONS25. Exactly where is this documented? >>> >>> /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES is where I found it. >> >> Grepped /usr/src/sys/conf/* and did not find it. >> >> I see from google that something seems to have been added to HEAD and its >> UPDATING, but there is nothing of the sort in 9.0 RELEASE - p4. > > It's there on my 9.0-RELEASE-p4 boxes. In /etc/freebsd-update.conf > do you have src among the components to update ? I have never been able to get update to work. I cvsup the source tree (which I suppose is now really serviced by subversion). >> I really should have known better by now than to upgrade to a X.0 - >> perhaps by X.2 or X.3 they will have fix most of the stuff they broke >> with X.0. > > I've yet to see any breakage, do your applications really break > with TERM=xterm on the console ? Only the essential stuff: joe, most, lynx. Of course things which do not use any function keys (including the movement keys) are not affected. >> Fortunately, I have learned enough to try upgrades on the mirror and not >> on the production disc. > > Well yes - no untested updates should ever hit a production system, > that's what the QA boxes are for. also the -V switch doesn't give such good results in mergemaster -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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