RE: changing colors on linux framebuffer consoles --my mistake

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Rick Engebretson wrote:

> An earlier posting of mine said the SuSE 8.0, 8.1, (?etc) default "linux" 
> console TERM did not include ccc in terminfo. While this is true, it was 
> misleading.
>
> SuSE installs using RPMs and the "linux" TERM entry for the terminfo db is 
> installed with the ncurses package. This "linux" TERM does not have ccc.

That makes it older than ncurses 5.3.  I have a SuSE 9.0 at hand to check,
and see it has terminfo dating from 2003-01-25, which is certainly newer 
than that.  The ccc as part of the normal "linux" TERM dates to 20020928.

> However, the SuSE terminfo package installs other linux TERM entries. These 
> include; "linux-c" and "linux-c-nc". These TERMs do include color. Eric 
> Raymond's terminfo source can be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/ncurses .

Technically, that's ncurses' terminfo source.  Raymond hasn't contributed
to it for several years:

######## TERMINAL TYPE DESCRIPTIONS SOURCE FILE
#
# This version of terminfo.src is distributed with ncurses.
# Report bugs and new terminal descriptions to
#       address@hidden
#
# The original header is preserved below for reference.  It is noted that there
# is a newer version which differs in some cosmetic details; we have decided
# to not change the header unless there is also a change in content.
#
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------


> So SuSE installs things differently, but still quite completely.

But not entirely as per design.  I don't have the corresponding rpm script 
to see what was done, but what's installed is a little usual (infocmp uses 
_nc_free_and_exit for instance).

Perhaps SuSE packagers read this mailing list (though based on some 
comments from a year ago, I'm not sure).

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