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

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
To: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/80256: /rescue/vi doesn't work without terminal database in /usr
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:56:50 +0300

 On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:10:20PM +0000, Bruce Evans wrote:
 > 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?).
 >  
 Something like src/release/picobsd/mfs_tree/etc/termcap.
 
 
 Cheers,
 -- 
 Ruslan Ermilov
 ru at FreeBSD.org
 FreeBSD committer