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

[Bruce Evans]

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

From: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/80256: /rescue/vi doesn't work without terminal database in
 /usr
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:03:01 +1000 (EST)

 On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote:
 
 > In message: <p06210211bed9fe36bf2d@[128.113.24.47]>
 >             Garance A Drosehn <gad at freebsd.org> writes:
 > : 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...
 >
 > See src/etc/termcap.small.  Been there a long time.
 
 I think this should always be installed in /etc and used via $TERMPATH
 in minimal environments (always for root?).
 
 Bruce