Re: [MiNT] New sample gentoo distribution

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

On 07/07/11 08:35, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I had already sent them upstream, but it's appeared in ncurses
5.9, which I've not yet built :-)

Alan.