bin/97407: /usr/share/misc/termcap overwritten by installworld
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Apr 18 19:39:24 UTC 2007
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:27:39PM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> >
> >This is by design; to make your termcap changes permanent,
> >please edit src/share/termcap/termcap.src. For example,
> >I have the following diff locally:
> >
>
> I understand that it's by design, it just seems like rather poor design.
>
> Is there a rationale for not having it as a text file in /etc (and
> handled by mergemaster(8)) that's not obvious?
Use ~/.termcap or $TERMPATH or $TERMCAP if you want to use a custom
location.
Kris
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