Bug#509919: ncurses-base: the tabset directory in compiled terminal descriptions is incorrect
Thomas Dickey
Version: 5.7+20081213-1
Severity: normal
Reviewing Ubuntu #200773, which reports this problem,
I checked my Debian/testing and see that infocmp vt220 shows
if=/etc/tabset/vt100,
That directory does not exist.
dpkg -L ncurses-base shows
/usr/share/tabset
/usr/share/tabset/stdcrt
/usr/share/tabset/vt300
/usr/share/tabset/std
/usr/share/tabset/vt100
To see the problem, the original bug report does
reset vt220
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ncurses-base depends on:
ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ncurses-base recommends no packages.
ncurses-base suggests no packages.
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Sven Joachim
> Package: ncurses-base
> Version: 5.7+20081213-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Reviewing Ubuntu #200773, which reports this problem,
> I checked my Debian/testing and see that infocmp vt220 shows
>
> if=/etc/tabset/vt100,
>
> That directory does not exist.
True. I haven't analyzed all the details yet, but the problem appears
to be that ncurses is configured with
"--with-default-terminfo-dir=/etc/terminfo", and your misc/gen_edit.sh
script changes the location of the tabset directory to /etc/tabset then.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Sven
Thomas Dickey
> On 2008-12-27 19:15 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> Package: ncurses-base
>> Version: 5.7+20081213-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Reviewing Ubuntu #200773, which reports this problem,
>> I checked my Debian/testing and see that infocmp vt220 shows
>>
>> if=/etc/tabset/vt100,
>>
>> That directory does not exist.
>
> True. I haven't analyzed all the details yet, but the problem appears
> to be that ncurses is configured with
> "--with-default-terminfo-dir=/etc/terminfo", and your misc/gen_edit.sh
> script changes the location of the tabset directory to /etc/tabset then.
>
> Any ideas?
I could add another configure-script tweak to make the location of tabset
explicit.
Normally tabset's under the same directory root as terminfo; however it
seems that Debian's providing for a mini-terminfo database.
(The "linux" terminal description doesn't use this capability, so it's not
that noticeable).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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Sven Joachim
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2008-12-27 19:15 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>
>>> Package: ncurses-base
>>> Version: 5.7+20081213-1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Reviewing Ubuntu #200773, which reports this problem,
>>> I checked my Debian/testing and see that infocmp vt220 shows
>>>
>>> if=/etc/tabset/vt100,
>>>
>>> That directory does not exist.
>>
>> True. I haven't analyzed all the details yet, but the problem appears
>> to be that ncurses is configured with
>> "--with-default-terminfo-dir=/etc/terminfo", and your misc/gen_edit.sh
>> script changes the location of the tabset directory to /etc/tabset then.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> I could add another configure-script tweak to make the location of
> tabset explicit.
That would be appreciated.
> Normally tabset's under the same directory root as terminfo; however
> it seems that Debian's providing for a mini-terminfo database.
The bulk of the terminfo files are in the ncurses-term package, all
under /usr/share/terminfo; ncurses-base only provides the most common
ones, files under /lib/terminfo and symlinks to them under
/usr/share/terminfo. The /etc/terminfo dir is reserved for local
terminfo descriptions.
Sven
Thomas Dickey
> On 2009-08-30 16:24 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-12-27 19:15 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Package: ncurses-base
>>>> Version: 5.7+20081213-1
>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>
>>>> Reviewing Ubuntu #200773, which reports this problem,
>>>> I checked my Debian/testing and see that infocmp vt220 shows
>>>>
>>>> if=/etc/tabset/vt100,
>>>>
>>>> That directory does not exist.
>>>
>>> True. I haven't analyzed all the details yet, but the problem appears
>>> to be that ncurses is configured with
>>> "--with-default-terminfo-dir=/etc/terminfo", and your misc/gen_edit.sh
>>> script changes the location of the tabset directory to /etc/tabset then.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> I could add another configure-script tweak to make the location of
>> tabset explicit.
>
> That would be appreciated.
I just made a note (probably will resolve next week's patch).
>
>> Normally tabset's under the same directory root as terminfo; however
>> it seems that Debian's providing for a mini-terminfo database.
>
> The bulk of the terminfo files are in the ncurses-term package, all
> under /usr/share/terminfo; ncurses-base only provides the most common
> ones, files under /lib/terminfo and symlinks to them under
> /usr/share/terminfo. The /etc/terminfo dir is reserved for local
> terminfo descriptions.
>
> Sven
>
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Sven Joachim
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2008-12-27 19:15 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>
>>> Package: ncurses-base
>>> Version: 5.7+20081213-1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Reviewing Ubuntu #200773, which reports this problem,
>>> I checked my Debian/testing and see that infocmp vt220 shows
>>>
>>> if=/etc/tabset/vt100,
>>>
>>> That directory does not exist.
>>
>> True. I haven't analyzed all the details yet, but the problem appears
>> to be that ncurses is configured with
>> "--with-default-terminfo-dir=/etc/terminfo", and your misc/gen_edit.sh
>> script changes the location of the tabset directory to /etc/tabset then.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> I could add another configure-script tweak to make the location of
> tabset explicit.
It seems this is not necessary after all. :-) We can configure the
Debian package with "--with-default-terminfo-dir=/usr/share/terminfo"
instead. Since we're also configuring with
--with-terminfo-dirs="/etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo"
, this does not affect the directory search order at runtime,
/etc/terminfo still is looked at before the other directories.
Sven
Thomas Dickey
> On 2009-08-30 16:24 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> I could add another configure-script tweak to make the location of
>> tabset explicit.
>
> It seems this is not necessary after all. :-) We can configure the
> Debian package with "--with-default-terminfo-dir=/usr/share/terminfo"
> instead. Since we're also configuring with
>
> --with-terminfo-dirs="/etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo"
>
> , this does not affect the directory search order at runtime,
> /etc/terminfo still is looked at before the other directories.
that sounds good.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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Sven Joachim
thanks
On 2009-08-30 20:01 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> It seems this is not necessary after all. :-) We can configure the
> Debian package with "--with-default-terminfo-dir=/usr/share/terminfo"
> instead. Since we're also configuring with
>
> --with-terminfo-dirs="/etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo"
>
> , this does not affect the directory search order at runtime,
> /etc/terminfo still is looked at before the other directories.
For the reference, here is the patch to debian/rules:
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diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index e7712a6..191b646 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ CONFARGS = --prefix=/usr \
--with-chtype='long' \
--with-mmask-t='long' \
--disable-termcap \
- --with-default-terminfo-dir=/etc/terminfo \
+ --with-default-terminfo-dir=/usr/share/terminfo \
--with-terminfo-dirs="/etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo" \
--with-ticlib
@@ -301,9 +301,6 @@ endif
$(MAKE) -C $(objdir) install.libs
$(MAKE) -C $(wobjdir) install.libs
- # Move terminfo files to the right place.
- mv $(tempdir)/etc/terminfo $(tempdir)/usr/share/terminfo
-
# Remove blacklisted terminal types.
cd $(tempdir)/usr/share/terminfo && rm -f $(badterminfo)
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