Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:58:36 -0500 (CDT)
Lars Eighner <luvbeastie at larseighner.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT)
> > Lars Eighner <lars at larseighner.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I grepped the entire /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf directory.  There is no
> >> TEKEN_CONS25 or TEKEN or CONS25.  Exactly where is this documented?
> >
> > 	/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES is where I found it.
> 
> Grepped /usr/src/sys/conf/* and did not find it.
> 
> I see from google that something seems to have been added to HEAD and its
> UPDATING, but there is nothing of the sort in 9.0 RELEASE - p4.

	It's there on my 9.0-RELEASE-p4 boxes. In /etc/freebsd-update.conf
do you have src among the components to update ?

> I really should have known better by now than to upgrade to a X.0 -
> perhaps by X.2 or X.3 they will have fix most of the stuff they broke
> with X.0.

	I've yet to see any breakage, do your applications really break
with TERM=xterm on the console ?

> Fortunately, I have learned enough to try upgrades on the mirror and not
> on the production disc.

	Well yes - no untested updates should ever hit a production system,
that's what the QA boxes are for.

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