On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:20:42PM +0100, Nils R wrote:
>
> After replacing the st-entries in /usr/share/mish/termcap and
> recreating the db with cap_mkdb, i also had to rename the terminfo.db
> to make it work. I could not find any program to rebuild the
> terminfo db, how is it done? Or is terminfo.db not needed at all?
> Still looking for a simpler solution :)
>
> Nils
The easiest is to go into:
/usr/src/share/termtypes
and edit OpenBSD's original file directly: termtypes.master
That file is mostly in terminfo format. (But you can put unsupported
termcap capabilities directly too, I think. Might be other stuff.)
And then you just use the included Makefile to update the system
databases.
# cd /usr/src/share/termtypes
# make obj && make clean && make && make install
BUT NOW YOU ARE RUNNING A MODIFIED AND UNSUPPORTED VERSION OF OPENBSD.
IF YOU BREAK SOMETHING, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.
Every time you will update by source, termtype.master will show up
as modified^1 and you'll have to verify it against the official version
to see whether the your personal changes are still needed, valid
and don't break anything.
If you update from tarballs, your personal modified term{cap,info}.db
will be lost and you'll have to remember to recreate your changes.
^1: In practice, every one should check the output from any "cvs
up" for lines that starts with M or C.
