Custom termcap entries and installworld

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon May 29 11:38:03 PDT 2006


In the last episode (May 28), Stephen Hurd said:
> Stephen Hurd wrote:
> >So, I suppose my questions are these:
> >1) How do people cope with custom termcap entries?
> >2) Is there a *correct* way to cope with custom termcap entries?
> >3) Is there a good reason to not have /usr/share/misc/termcap be a 
> >symlink to /etc/termcap rather than the reverse which would allow 
> >mergemaster to Just Work?  that is... putting it in /etc fixes a 
> >problem... does moving it create one or more more serious problems?
> >4) Am I supposed to submit every custom termcap tweak for inclusion in 
> >the next release so I can keep using my terminals?
> Anyone?

What's wrong with just putting your custom termcap entry in
/usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src so it gets installed during
installworld?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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