Re: HEADS UP: terminfo imported into -current

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Roy Marples wrote:

> 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 out of date.

I'm not talking about the build fix, I'm talking about the shell hocking
up errors. Come to think it it, it might have been tcsh. I didn't write
any errors down, just rebuilt all my packages based on something someone
else said on the thread.

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