bin/80256: /rescue/vi doesn't work without terminal database in /usr

[Garance A Drosehn]

The following reply was made to PR bin/80256; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garance A Drosehn <gad at FreeBSD.org>
To: Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>
Cc: freebsd-current at FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/80256: /rescue/vi doesn't work without terminal database
 in /usr
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:42:51 -0400

 At 1:57 PM +0100 6/18/05, Brian Candler wrote:
 >[from freebsd-current]
 >On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 12:48:04AM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
 >>  >Yes, I'm aware of PR bin/80256, but that appears to stalled in
 >>  >a state of limbo.
 >>
 >>  I've also been meaning to do something about that idea of a small
 >>  termcap file.  I don't remember what the PR says, but someone had a
 >>  good idea of generating the minimal termcap file from the standard
 >>  one, and putting that in /rescue.  I have a few ideas of my own so
 >>  the system would automatically pick up that minimal file.  Just a
 >>  matter of finding the time to test it all...  :-)
 >
 >I started that PR. Subsequently there was a short discussion off-list
 >where it turned out that Warner Losh had a compact termcap file
 >which could be committed - it's attached below. However nothing
 >further happened.
 
 I am aware of Warner's termcap file, and I had talked with him earlier
 this year about committing something along those lines.  I forget if
 I was going to commit his exact termcap file, or some auto-generated
 alternative, but I do have the emails around here somewhere.  I know
 that *at the time* I knew what I had planned to do, and that Warner
 had nodded in general agreement to whatever that was...
 
 Right now I am busy finishing off some changes to `env', which will
 fix some problems introduced by a different change that I made earlier
 this year.  Once I have those changes sorted out, I'll go back and
 look at my emails on this termcap idea.  (Unless, of course, anyone
 else wants to do it before I get to it!)
 
 -- 
 Garance Alistair Drosehn     =      gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
 Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA
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