From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 11:25:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740F41065670 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@noos.larseighner.com) Received: from emailserver2.asdf456.com (emailserver2.asdf456.com [72.18.207.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 491B38FC0C for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19655 invoked by uid 0); 24 Aug 2012 11:25:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO noos.larseighner.com) (71.20.75.102) by emailserver2.asdf456.com with SMTP; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:25:40 -0700 Received: by noos.larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@noos.larseighner.com; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:24:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:24:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.larseighner.com To: Steve O'Hara-Smith In-Reply-To: <20120824121531.50f62e9a.steve@sohara.org> Message-ID: References: <20120824080544.9bca4996.steve@sohara.org> <20120824095533.7ff3bc23.steve@sohara.org> <20120824114757.e4d37b9b.steve@sohara.org> <20120824121531.50f62e9a.steve@sohara.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings 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: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:25:42 -0000 On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:58:36 -0500 (CDT) > Lars Eighner wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT) >>> Lars Eighner 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