bin/97407: /usr/share/misc/termcap overwritten by installworld

Stephen Hurd shurd at sasktel.net
Wed Apr 18 05:57:59 UTC 2007


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?

If not, perhaps suspended would be a better state than closed.



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