Re: HEADS UP: terminfo imported into -current

[Roy Marples <roy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 02/05/10 06:36, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Roy Marples wrote:
>
> > Hi List
> >
> > I've now imported my terminfo implementation into -current and removed
> > termcap. terminfo provides a backwards compatable termcap interface
> > (minus the NetBSD extensions).
> >
> > Everything should still work just as before, with the below exceptions:
> >
> > * Any 3rd party programs using the termcap API NetBSD extensions
> > will have to be reworked.
> >
> > * termcap -> terminfo translation is not provided.
> > As such $TERMCAP is ignored and tset -s no longer reports it.
> > If you maintain your own definitions you will now have to manage
> > them your personal terminfo databases.
> > This is described in tic(1).
>
> So I deleted my termcap.db and rebuilt all my packages because I
> was getting termcap errors from xterm. Is that about what I need to do
> to test for this change?

You should not have needed to do anything.
The xterm error has already been fixed, so your sources are probably a 
little out of date.

Thanks

Roy