Re: [MiNT] New sample gentoo distribution

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 07/07/11 07:51, Paul Wratt wrote:
> Thanks for the updated packages Alan, ticking along nicely
> ------------
> Alan: Per subject; can you do a new "sample distro", with a couple of
> extras included:
> vim
> ping
> tracerout
> (and anything else that may be missing/needed/useful etc - like the install doc)
> ------------
>
> "daily use" issues (Remember I'm using ARAnyM here as my test machine here)
>
> asking for install docs, at the time I did not test it properly in a
> "daily use" situation.
>
> What I found later was that I could not use it properly with the
> default settings supplied, and the editor would not run (the one
> supplied is nano). I also tried vim with similar results.
>
> The first problem was a lack of "-" (minus) key (yes shift-minus works).
>
> The second problem was the default "term" type, which affect the editors
>
> root@gentoo bin # nano
> Error opening terminal: tw100.
> root@gentoo bin # clear
> 'tw100': unknown terminal type.
>
> I presume the "-" key issue is related to the term issue.
>
> the console handler is TosWin2 that comes with MyAES. Changing term
> settings in TosWin2 made no difference.
>
> Is there something missing from the TosWin2 supplied with MyAES, or is
> something not being set by default with (or missing in) the sample
> Gentoo distro
>
> This is an absolutely clean install, no changes, uses same mint.cnf as
> AFROS (incl auto folder programs), with MyAES on top.
>
> I added QED just so I could edit something.

This is because the tw100 terminfo entries in ncurses have never been
pushed upstream.

I'll deal with this.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Alan.