Changeset ec590c04

Timestamp:

02/27/2006 04:55:43 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Dan Nichilson <dnicholson@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

3003aec

Parents:

a26609e

Message:

Add note to tinker-term.sh

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@5686 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/config/profile.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[dnicholson] - Added note that tinker-term.sh is irrelevant
+          with Ncurses-5.5+ and shouldn't be installed in that situation.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>February 27th, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Added seamonkey-1.0 and deleted mozilla.</para>
         </listitem>

postlfs/config/profile.xml

@@ -258 +258 @@
     </sect3>
 
+    <!-- TODO: Remove tinker-term.sh for BLFS-6.2 which will coincide
+         with stable LFS having Ncurses-5.5 -->
+
     <sect3 id="tinker-term.sh">
       <title>/etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh</title>
@@ -266 +269 @@
 
       <para>Some applications need a specific <envar>TERM</envar> setting to
-      support color.</para>
+      support color.  Starting with Ncurses-5.5, the xterm terminal type
+      contains color capabilities by default.  If you have this
+      version or greater, the <filename>tinker-term.sh</filename> script is
+      unnecessary and should not be installed.</para>
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"