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Re: [MiNT] New sample gentoo distribution



They must have been pushed upstream at some point by someone somewhere because I remember surprisingly finding them in one of the linux distros I use.  I forget which now though.

Thanks,
Mark


On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:35 AM, 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.
> 
> Alan.
> 
>